I'm writing validation of SSL certificates and I'd like to know the format of certificate names with wildcards. From the RFC 2818:
Names may contain the wildcard character * which is considered to match any single domain name component or component fragment. E.g., .a.com matches foo.a.com but not bar.foo.a.com. f.com matches foo.com but not bar.com.
Is it possible for the wildcard character to appear in the middle of the name? Also can I use a few of them in one name?
hello.*.a.com
*.*.a.com
I understand that it may not be practically useful, but I want to know what is technically possible.
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