Thanks Mark, this makes sense. Best regards, Svetlin
This isn't a bug. You are misunderstanding the RFC. > > Domain attributes are only sent from servers to user agents. > > The general rule to keep in mind is: > "Be lenient in what you accept. Be strict in what you send." > > Section 5.2.3 applies to User agents and it is informing them to be > lenient in what the accept since they can, unambiguously, ignore a > leading '.' if present on the domain. > > Section 4.1.2.3 is referring to the same behaviour. > > Tomcat is strict in what it will allow applications to send. The ABNF > for domain-av does not allow leading '.' so neither does Tomcat. > > Tomcat could be lenient here and strip any leading '.' but generally, > Tomcat does not add code to work around application bugs. It expects > those bugs to be fixed in the applications. There are exceptions but > this is one of them and I don't see a compelling case to make it an > exception. > > Mark > > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org > For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org > >
