RE: [xacml] URL match function

[Tim Moses <tim.moses@entrust.com>]

Guys - "*" is an unreserved character, which IS allowed in a URI.  We should
probably specify that "*" be escaped, unless it is the wild-card.  All the
best.  Tim.

-----Original Message-----
From: Seth Proctor [mailto:Seth.Proctor@Sun.COM] 
Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 3:45 PM
To: Polar Humenn
Cc: 'XACML'
Subject: Re: [xacml] URL match function



On Mon, 2004-05-17 at 15:38, Polar Humenn wrote:
> On Mon, 17 May 2004, Tim Moses wrote:
> 
> > Colleagues - Here is a draft of the proposed URL-match function 
> > (with help from JSR 115).  All the best.  Tim.
> >
> > urn:oasis:names:tc:xacml:2.0:function:url-match
> >
> > This function takes two arguments of type 
> > http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#anyURI and SHALL return an 
> > http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#boolean.
> 
> Q: Is "http://foo.com/*"; a valid URI?

Good question. I just tried that in a few browsers and it seems to be
allowed, but that's not really an answer :)


seth


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