On Thu, Aug 15, 2013 at 10:08:35AM -0700, Mike Duigou wrote: > I've been confused through this discussion as to why a trailing dot would be > regarded as illegal. > > Historically a trailing dot has been frequently (though not universally) used > to denote a fully qualified domain name. > > https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fully_qualified_domain_name > > Is this use now illegal/unsupported/invalid? Does having a trailing dot > conflict with other parts of the IDN specification? > > Mike
This is why some of us were protesting the code which disallowed the trailing '.', and eventually the code was changed to allow it to be present. Matthew.
