On Wed, 28 Jan 2009, James Graham wrote: > > I think the remaining issue is that it is not clear what it means to > "match a suffix in the public suffix list". The public suffix list > itself does not define this but only has vauge notes about the expected > format; there seem to be implied rules like given an entry a.b Setting > document.domain to b should fail, even if b is not listed explicitly. The spec covers that case: "or, if new value, prefixed by a U+002E FULL STOP ("."), matches the end of a suffix in the Public Suffix List". > I think the algorithm for determining if a domain is in the public > suffix list should be specified in detail somewhere, although I guess > HTML 5 is likely not quite the right place since this may be used in > non-HTML contexts. I agree that it would be nice if there was some text on publicsuffix.org that gave some normative-like text I could hook into here. -- Ian Hickson U+1047E )\._.,--....,'``. fL http://ln.hixie.ch/ U+263A /, _.. \ _\ ;`._ ,. Things that are impossible just take longer. `._.-(,_..'--(,_..'`-.;.'Received on Wednesday, 28 January 2009 19:48:04 UTC
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