Re: [Bug-wget] Overly permissive hostname matching

[Jeffrey Walton]

On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:37 AM, Jeffrey Walton <address@hidden> wrote:
> On Wed, Mar 19, 2014 at 11:30 AM, Daniel Stenberg <address@hidden> wrote:
>> On Wed, 19 Mar 2014, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
>>
>>> # Remove lines that begin with "!"
>>
>>
>> That sounds wrong:
>>
>>   A rule may begin with a "!" (exclamation mark). If it does, it is labelled
>>   as a "exception rule" and then treated as if the exclamation mark is not
>> present.
> Oh well. I'm too aggressive on the ban. I'd rather fail closed than open :)
>
> Anyway, I'll try to find the meaning of that bang. I seem to recall I
> could not find the meaning of it in the past.
After reading that again, I don't mean to sound rude. Sorry about
that. Thanks for pointing it out.

And it does bring up a good point: the data structure needs two thing:
(1) a name, and (2) a flag for white/black. White is white listed
while black is black listed.

The API needs (at minimum): (1) take a name, and (2) return
white/black/no entry. Everything else is just frills.

Jeff