On 30/05/18 10:00, Sven Buesing wrote:
> Hello everyone,
> Hello Mark,
> 
> @markt: as this change is from you, I've added you in cc. Please let me know 
> if you're fine with this.

No, I am not. Please do not send direct mail to Tomcat committers. If
you have a Tomcat related question, it belongs on the mailing list.

> Since Tomcat 7.0.87 Coyote has added a validation check for Host-Headers.
> The validation seems to expect that a host header is always a FQDN.
> But in common DNS setups, search domains are used, which are automatically 
> appended to a DNS request.
> 
> The search domain on the other hand is not appended to the host header of the 
> request. For example, a host header might therefore look like this: "Host: 
> subdomain.host-header". 
> The"-" causes the request to be recognized as incorrect and discarded.
> As a result, since the update to Tomcat >8.0.86, certain requests are 
> answered with 400 bad requests.
> 
> This could be a problem in certain setups. Maybe you could change the 
> validation behaviour to also accept common domain names without requireing 
> FQDNs.

https://bz.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=62371

Mark

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