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Re: [ac] Updates to Access-Control document

From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2007 01:40:10 +0000 (UTC)
To: Thomas Roessler <tlr@w3.org>
Cc: Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>, Brad Porter <brad@tellme.com>, "WAF WG (public)" <public-appformats@w3.org>, access-control tf <member-accesscontrol-tf@w3.org>
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.62.0702090139260.4112@dhalsim.dreamhost.com>

On Wed, 7 Feb 2007, Thomas Roessler wrote:
> 
>  except http://www.*/
> 
> (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.)

What's the use-case for suffix-matching wildcards? That seems confusing 
and complicated, in an area where we really want absolute clarity and no 
possibility of mistakes.

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