John, > Because I think that suppressing that behavior for valid TLDs would be an appropriate modification to avoid potential URIBL FPs
fully agree. SA should not append .com if the domain has a valid tld and a domain label. We know of at least one FP related to "www.ch" when (the expanded version) "ch.com" was checked on uribl lists. Cheers tobi On 11/7/20 8:04 PM, John Hardin wrote: > On Sat, 7 Nov 2020, RW wrote: > >> On Sat, 7 Nov 2020 10:05:21 -0800 (PST) >> John Hardin wrote: >> >>> On Sat, 7 Nov 2020, RW wrote: >>> >>>> On Fri, 6 Nov 2020 16:10:18 +0000 >>>> RW wrote: >>>> >>>> >>>>> However, I can't get an up-to-date Firefox to add .com, so the >>>>> feature may already be obsolete. >>>> >>>> I take that back, it does. >>> >>> What does it do for the example at hand, http://www.ch ? >> >> Firefox only adds .com if the domain doesn't resolve. >> >> www.ch resolves and then redirects to https://meteo.ch/ >> >> If SA is to allow for what Firefox does then I think the behaviour is >> reasonable. A DNS lookup would be overkill, > > Agreed. > >> and there's no particular reason to exclude labels that happen to be >> TLDs. > > Do you mean *valid* TLDs? Because I think that suppressing that behavior > for valid TLDs would be an appropriate modification to avoid potential > URIBL FPs (which, granted, is probably fairly unlikely) and to avoid the > overhead of extra lookups. > >
