Re: [AC] domain matching

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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Received on Wednesday, 28 March 2007 18:41:06 UTC