Spec v Practice, URI wildcard

Eric J Bowman <mellowmutt@zoho.com> Tue, 15 September 2020 00:06 UTC

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From: Eric J Bowman <mellowmutt@zoho.com>
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How many webservers implement the URI wildcard, i.e.



http://example.com/*



I've only ever implemented for OPTIONS requests. Is this obsolete, are there successful use-cases, or do folks just not bother with this?



-Eric