Wildcard branch protection via REST api

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Wildcard branch protection is supported in the Gitlab UI.

Is it possible to protect branches with wildcard via REST? If I try something like

PUT /api/v3/projects/58/repository/branches/stable-*/protect?developers_can_push=true

I get a HTTP 500 internal server error and my gitlab-rails/production.log shows

Started PUT "/api/v3/projects/58/repository/branches/stable-*/protect?developers_can_push=true" for 10.10.62.41 at 2016-11-09 10:35:25 +0100

Rugged::ReferenceError (Cannot locate local branch 'stable-*'):
  /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.3.0/gems/gitlab_git-10.6.8/lib/gitlab_git/repository.rb:85:in `[]'
  /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gem/ruby/2.3.0/gems/gitlab_git-10.6.8/lib/gitlab_git/repository.rb:85:in `find_branch'
  /opt/gitlab/embedded/service/gitlab-rails/app/models/repository.rb:139:in `find_branch'
  ...

Is this expected to work?