Re: Handling of wildcard certificates (ACTION-519)

I don't remember off-hand and don't have the code checked out but  
Konqueror was supposed to behave as Yngve described.

On 24-Sep-08, at 11:15 AM, Thomas Roessler wrote:

> Hello,
>
> during today's call, we realized that RFC 2818 seems underspecified  
> in terms of what's permissible in wildcard certificates; Yngve told  
> us that Opera only accepts the wildcard in the first label of a DNS  
> name that appears in a certificate.
>
> I.e., *.bar.com can match foo.bar.com, but foo.*.com wouldn't match  
> foo.bar.com, in Opera.
>
> How do Mozilla and Chrome and Konqueror behave?
>
> Thanks,
> -- 
> Thomas Roessler, W3C   <tlr@w3.org>
>
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George Staikos
Torch Mobile Inc.
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Received on Thursday, 25 September 2008 01:37:14 UTC