On Fri, Feb 22, 2013 at 06:12:41PM -0500, Brian Reichert wrote: > The spec for a URL also calls out what constitutes a hostname, and > I've yet to see a HTTP client that trips over a rooted domain name.
Well, RFC 3986 (URI) explicitly allows the final dot. See the section on reg-name in section 3.2.2. Sometimes this RFC is used as one of the example sowers-of-confusion, because despite the fact that the relevant section is talking about DNS domain names, the name of the segment of the URI is called "host", and hostnames don't have a trailing dot. It's no wonder people who merely have to implement this stuff are confused, when the stnadards development organization in question can't figure out how the terminology works! A -- Andrew Sullivan Dyn asulli...@dyn.com
