Closed Bug 657926 Opened 13 years ago Closed 13 years ago

Period after TLD is handled incorrectly by HTTPS certificate handling

Categories

(Core :: Networking, defect)

Product:
Core
Component:
Networking
Type:
defect
Priority:
Not set
Severity:
normal

Tracking

()

Status:
RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 134402

People

(Reporter: arthur.wist, Unassigned)

References

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URL
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Details

User-Agent:       Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 5.1; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20110508 Firefox/4.0.6 PaleMoon/4.0.6
Build Identifier: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:2.0.1) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/4.0.1

Firefox doesn't properly handle appending a period after the top level domain identifier in URLs when accessing them via HTTPS, although doing so is valid per DNS specifications. The certificate handler doesn't understand that secure.wikimedia.org. is (pretty much) equal to secure.wikimedia.org

It should be pointed out that it might also be that the certificate should have been filled more verbosely, and that thus the fault is with nearly every website that uses HTTPS. If that's the case, I guess this bug could be closed.


Reproducible: Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Go to bug URL


Actual Results:  
Warning about certificate domain missmatch

Expected Results:  
No warning, URL is just an alternative way of writing it.
Status: UNCONFIRMED → RESOLVED
Closed: 13 years ago
Resolution: --- → DUPLICATE
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