[HTTPS-E Rulesets] [HTTPS-Everywhere] In Google.xml, why "[^/@:]"?

[Peter Eckersley]

On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 12:00:32AM +0800, Drake, Brian wrote:
> Oh, I didn’t realise that the pattern you object to is being used, in some
> places, to match top-level domains. In those places, yes, that is bad, as it
> could (in theory, at least) match domains that aren’t even controlled by
> Google.

We may have this problem anyway:

http://www.google.co.hk/

> 
> While we’re talking about narrowing down the rules, why use clients[0-9]
> when the <target> elements only go from 1 to 5? Isn’t this inefficient (by
> creating more work for the regex engine)?

This is simply historical.  It shouldn't have any consequences.

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