The trailing dot in domain names, a detail that is often poorly managed
While inspecting traffic logs for my website in redirection.io recently, I noticed several requests logged on the lacot.org. domain name. Did you see the final trailing dot in the hostname? I first thought it was a bug in the logging platform, but I was surprised to learn that it is perfectly possible to add a dot at the end of a domain name. To be more precise, I already knew about trailing dots in domain names, but never thought about checking how it was handled in web browers and in HTTP traf...
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