- From: Arthur Barstow <art.barstow@nokia.com>
- Date: Wed, 28 Mar 2007 14:38:42 -0400
- To: ext Anne van Kesteren <annevk@opera.com>
- Cc: "WAF WG (public)" <public-appformats@w3.org>
Anne, On Mar 28, 2007, at 11:28 AM, ext Anne van Kesteren wrote: > > Another issue that Microsoft raised and Thomas wasn't sure about > either is the domain matching. Specifically the wildcard matching. > Currently a wildcard matches a single label and nothing more. This > means that foo.bar.com doesn't match *.com and does match *.*.com. > This allows for things like foo.*.bar.com as well, because if the > wildcard could match an arbitrary number of labels here the > algorithm for matching would become quite complex and it's not > clear that actually does what you'd want. > > The other idea is only allowing the wildcard at the start. This > implies that foo.bar.com matches *.com and that foo.*.bar.com would > be illegal (the wildcard can only appear at the start). This last suggestion seems reasonable to me. Regards, Art Barstow ---
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