Prior to this commit, gh-35213 allowed wildcard path elments at the
start of path patterns. This came with an additional constraint that
rejected such patterns if the pattern segment following the wildcard one
was not a literal:
* `/**/{name}` was rejected
* `/**/something/{name}` was accepted
The motivation here was to make the performance impact of wildard
patterns as small as possible at runtime.
This commit relaxes this constraint because `/**/*.js` patterns are very
popular in the security space for request matchers.
Closes gh-35686
This commit improves the reference document to better reflect the
different between `*` or `{name}` on one side, and `**` or `{*path}` on
the other.
The former patterns only consider a single path segment and its content,
while the latter variants consider zero or more path segments. This
explains why `/test/{*path}` can match `/test`.
Closes gh-35727
Brian Clozel