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Re: [ac] Updates to Access-Control document

From: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
Date: Thu, 08 Feb 2007 16:07:28 +0100
To: "Thomas Roessler" <tlr@w3.org>
Cc: "WAF WG (public)" <public-appformats@w3.org>, "access-control tf" <member-accesscontrol-tf@w3.org>
Message-ID: <op.tnfqyqms64w2qv@id-c0020.oslo.opera.com>

On Wed, 07 Feb 2007 20:32:16 +0100, Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org> wrote:
> Yes.  Here's a slightly pathologic example that might make the
> difference clear:
>
>    allow http://*.org/ 		except http://www.*/
>    allow http://www.example.org/
>
> In this example, www.example.org is actually permissible, according
> to the scheme that I had proposed.

It would be allowed anyway, as * matches a single label... Note also that  
the trailing solidus is not actually allowed and puts the thing in error...

But yeah, I can see a case for having them paired. I don't really feel  
strongly about this either way, except that this seems to make things  
slightly more complicated.


> (Actually, I'm having second thoughts about the matching of a
> wildcard-label.  Should that only match one label or possibly an
> entire subdomain?  Something's fishy there.)

Not sure.


> [...]



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