- From: Ian Hickson <ian@hixie.ch>
- Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2009 19:47:28 +0000 (UTC)
- To: James Graham <jgraham@opera.com>
- Cc: HTML WG <public-html@w3.org>, contact@publicsuffix.org
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.
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