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RFC 2595: The wildcard specification is poorly defined. For example:...

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Comment by captainz
Submitted on 10/6/2004
Related RFC: RFC 2595
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The wildcard specification is poorly defined. For example: *.example.com would match foo.example.com, but what about foo.bar.example.com?To be consistent with the 'least surprise principle' the leftmost tree should match, but it generally doesn't. Please clarify.