1364029 - Match patterns should also match top-level domain with "*" wildcard

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 1362849

(WebExtensions :: General, defect)

Description

[kernp25]

User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; WOW64; rv:53.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/53.0
Build ID: 20170504105526

Steps to reproduce:

webRequest.onBeforeRequest.addListener(
  processRequest,
  {urls: ["*://*/*"], types: ["main_frame", "sub_frame"]},
  ["blocking"]
);

In processRequest i do:
var url = details.url;
if (/^https?:\/\/www\.google\.[a-z.]+\/url\?.+&url=/.test(url)) {
  url = /&url=([^&]+)/.exec(url)[1];
}



Expected results:

webRequest.onBeforeRequest.addListener(
  processRequest,
  {urls: ["*://www.google.*/url?*&url=*"], types: ["main_frame", "sub_frame"]},
  ["blocking"]
);

This matches:
https://www.google.com/url?...&url=...
https://www.google.de/url?...&url=...