handle underscore not being allowed in dns names #4109
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Let's think about this later -- we have some higher-priority things to work through first
needs-review
I plan on going through each of the issues and clarifying them -- this is to mark remaining issues
Trying to access domain names with underscores in the subdomain doesn't work with the .NET httpclient. It's marked as WONTFIX: dotnet/runtime#35880. There is a workaround but I'd rather not accrue the debt considering it's technically wrong.
This is a problem because some of our users have usernames with underscores. So when they access user_name.builtwithdark.com with our httpclient, there's an SSL error:
The correct solution, according to the grand plan of dark that's in my head, is to not use usernames in subdomains. I'll write up an issue for that. In the meantime, we need to patch over this in a forward compatible way.
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