*/
  private fun assertWildcardRule(rule: String) {
    check(rule.startsWith(WILDCARD_CHAR)) {
      """Wildcard Assertion Failure: '$rule'
A wildcard rule was added with a wildcard that is not in leftmost position! We'll need to change the ${PublicSuffixDatabase::class.java.name} to handle this."""
    }
    check(rule.indexOf(WILDCARD_CHAR, 1) == -1) {
      """Wildcard Assertion Failure: '$rule'

      verifyHostname(hostname, it)
    }
  }

  /**
   * This is like [toLowerCase] except that it does nothing if this contains any non-ASCII
   * characters. We want to avoid lower casing special chars like U+212A (Kelvin symbol) because
   * they can return ASCII characters that match real hostnames.
   */
  private fun String.asciiToLowercase(): String {
    return when {

  @JvmStatic
  fun headerEntries(vararg elements: String?): List<Header> {
    return List(elements.size / 2) { Header(elements[it * 2]!!, elements[it * 2 + 1]!!) }
  }

  @JvmStatic
  fun repeat(
    c: Char,
    count: Int,
  ): String {
    val array = CharArray(count)
    Arrays.fill(array, c)
    return String(array)
  }

  /**