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Re:Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux i... by tialaramex on Thursday March 19, 2020 @07:43PM (#22632974)
The relevant RFC says not to send a trailing dot in SNI. Browsers should probably trim the dot out if present. Maybe they aren't doing so because it causes some unexpected compatibility mishap, maybe in reality it rarely causes any trouble so nobody got around to it.
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Re:Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux i... by jwilk on Friday March 20, 2020 @05:41AM (#22636278)
https://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3546#section-3.1

> "HostName" contains the fully qualified DNS hostname of the server, as understood by the client. The hostname is represented as a byte string using UTF-8 encoding, without a trailing dot.

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Re:Linux maintains bugs: The real reason ifconfig on Linux i... by internalthief on Thursday March 19, 2020 @08:09PM (#22633154)
I was not aware of this!
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