Treat Max-Age<=0 as immediate expiry (RFC 6265)#805
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Align strict Max-Age parsing with RFC 6265 user-agent processing. Non-positive delta-seconds now expire cookies immediately instead of being rejected as malformed.
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RFC 6265 defines user-agent processing for Max-Age as follows (Section 5.2.2, lines 931–940 in the datatracker text view):
“If the first character of the attribute-value is not a DIGIT or a '-' character, ignore the cookie-av.”
“If delta-seconds is less than or equal to zero (0), let expiry-time be the earliest representable date and time.”