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. > [...] -- Anne van Kesteren <http://annevankesteren.nl/> <http://www.opera.com/>Received on Thursday, 8 February 2007 15:08:06 GMT
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