From a2e32089991f83151f069647c437c6a4c11b48c7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Bob Mottram <bob@freedombone.net>
Date: Fri, 23 Aug 2019 12:31:46 +0100
Subject: [PATCH] Comments

---
 httpsig.py | 3 +++
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+)

diff --git a/httpsig.py b/httpsig.py
index 12cd835d7..8ac2ef538 100644
--- a/httpsig.py
+++ b/httpsig.py
@@ -120,6 +120,9 @@ def createSignedHeader(privateKeyPem: str,nickname: str, \
     return headers
 
 def verifyRecentSignature(signedDateStr: str) -> bool:
+    """Checks whether the given time taken from the header is within
+    12 hours of the current time
+    """
     currDate=datetime.datetime.utcnow()
     signedDate=datetime.datetime.strptime(signedDateStr,"%a, %d %b %Y %H:%M:%S %Z")
     # 12 hours tollerance