AAAAARGH.
Trailing dots on host names in URLs is the gift that keeps on giving, I said it already four years ago and it still generously continues to poke me in the eye.
https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2022/05/12/a-tale-of-a-trailing-dot/
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@bagder My take: the HTTP spec is wrong and anyone serving a different site with a trailing dot is insane and shouldn't be accomodated.
@bagder Always a problem when different systems have different requirements for the handling of something like this; different rules for the handling of the trailing dot, or case sensitivity, or the like. Frustrating that the standards and systems you need to interoperate with, like system hostname resolution, can't agree, so there's never an easy answer.
@unlambda exactly, and that inevitably leads to a security problem somewhere deep in there where we did or did not handle it appropriately...
DNS records would like a word
