Comment # 2 on bug 991680 from Dominique Leuenberger

(In reply to Michael Andres from comment #1)
> All proxy handling is delegated to libproxy and it looks indeed like
> libproxy actually requires a leading dot to match domains.
> 
> I forward this to the libprocxy maintainers as there should be no need to
> enforce the leading dot.

How do you distinguish the difference between a subdomain and a hostname then?
It's not uncommon to start domains with a dot, and hostnames not.

The syntax used by Libproxy is, by the way, identical to the one documented by
Firefox too:

http://www-archive.mozilla.org/quality/networking/docs/aboutno_proxy_for.html

>From a libproxy PoV => ENOTABUG