LWPCookieJar cannot handle cookies with expirations of 2038 or greater on 32-bit platforms

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Difficulty
4/5
Estimated time
3-5 days
Newbie friendliness
30/100
Issue type
Bug
Clarity
Needs clarification
Activity status
Stale
Tech stack
python
Domain
networking

Research direction

Start by reviewing the historical files cookiejar_datetime.patch and monkey_patch_cookielib_time2isoz.py, then trace the LWPCookieJar implementation and its expiration-date handling. Reproduce the failure on a 32-bit platform and add coverage showing that expirations of 2038 or greater are handled correctly.

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Description

3.10 3.8 (EOL) 3.9 (EOL) stdlib type-bug
BPO 5537
Nosy @abalkin, @vstinner, @pganssle
Files
  • cookiejar_datetime.patch
  • monkey_patch_cookielib_time2isoz.py
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created_at = <Date 2009-03-22.17:50:24.659>
labels = ['3.8', 'type-bug', 'library', '3.9', '3.10']
title = 'LWPCookieJar cannot handle cookies with expirations of 2038 or greater on 32-bit platforms'
updated_at = <Date 2020-11-04.02:07:42.993>
user = 'https://bugs.python.org/hollec'

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url = 'https://bugs.python.org/issue5537'
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