- The check for validwildcarddomainname did not allow wildcards of the form
   *.ipfire.org* which is the example given on the proxy.cgi page for excluded url's
   for the wpad file.
- A forum user sufferred from this problem and the bug was raised for it.
   https://community.ipfire.org/t/proxy-cgi-error-message-when-use-wildcard-in-wpad-excluded-url-s/8597
   forum user has tested the patch change and confirmed it solves the problem.

Fixes: Bug#12937
Suggested-by: Bernhard Bitsch <bbitsch(a)ipfire.org>
Signed-off-by: Adolf Belka <adolf.belka(a)ipfire.org>
---
 config/cfgroot/general-functions.pl | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/config/cfgroot/general-functions.pl b/config/cfgroot/general-functions.pl
index 98bedb4b9..d871025eb 100644
--- a/config/cfgroot/general-functions.pl
+++ b/config/cfgroot/general-functions.pl
@@ -760,7 +760,7 @@ sub validwildcarddomainname($) {
 	my $domainname = shift;
 
 	# Ignore any leading dots
-	if ($domainname =~ m/^\*\.(.*)/) {
+	if ($domainname =~ m/^\*\.([^\*]*)\*?/) {
 		$domainname = $1;
 	}
 
-- 
2.39.0