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).
Input welcome.
I think patterns like *.foo.com, where * matches multiple levels, will
be far more common than patterns like bar.*.foo.com. In fact, I think
the latter would add very little value whereas the former is critical if
we want wildcard matching at all.
In general I think 95% of the users of AC will simply use allow="*", so
I think in general we should keep things simple as everything beyond
that will have a much lower cost/benefit ratio.
Best Regards,
Jonas Sicking
