On Thu, 17 Sep 2020, Mark Andrews wrote:
On 17 Sep 2020, at 08:36, Derek Wilson <jderekwil...@gmail.com> wrote:
[...]
Trailing dot is UI not wire.
I agree with you Mark, as does Eastlake (RFC 6066). ;-)
the common BIND8/BIND4/BSD client library also uses a trailing dot as a signal;
the signal is "do a query of the input string first, before trying the search
list". this is both weak and confusing, but it's the signal path we had.
That behavior makes sense to me but maybe that's because it's what I'm used to.
Actually if the name ends in a period, the name is tried “as is” and the search
list
is NOT applied.
I haven't read the systemd thread yet, so I apologize. Mark knows what I
am about to tell you: this is actually at the heart of a Firefox + Apache
TLS bug. Contrast:
http://apache.org./
and
https://apache.org./
Mind you, the latter behavior is the /fix/ the original (apache) behavior
was much worse. Firefox just does what it wants to do.
Interior periods are tried “as is” first then with the search list.
Dotless names are tried with the search list then as is.
Browser fetish for "search and URL in the same box" muddies this quite a
bit.
--
Fred Morris
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