tls: localhost is valid against identity-check

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 4 deletions

diff --git a/lib/tls.js b/lib/tls.js
index 640328ec4fa..aec7cae4267 100644
--- a/lib/tls.js
+++ b/lib/tls.js
@@ -85,10 +85,6 @@ function checkServerIdentity(host, cert) {
     // Add trailing dot (make hostnames uniform)
     if (!/\.$/.test(host)) host += '.';
 
-    // Host names with less than one dots are considered too broad,
-    // and should not be allowed
-    if (!/^.+\..+$/.test(host)) return /$./;
-
     // The same applies to hostname with more than one wildcard,
     // if hostname has wildcard when wildcards are not allowed,
     // or if there are less than two dots after wildcard (i.e. *.com or *d.com)