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The argument does start with a slash if your "server" is not working as a proxy, and the HTTP string comes after the space, which is also matched with the regex.

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Re^4: write a small Perl HTTP server
by gaal (Parson) on Jul 09, 2004 at 16:43 UTC
    No, that's incorrect:

    The HTTP RFC (2616) defines the Request-Line thus (section 5.1):

    Request-Line   = Method SP Request-URI SP HTTP-Version CRLF

    And Request-URI thus:

    Request-URI    = "*" | absoluteURI | abs_path | authority

    So although you *may* supply an absolute path as an argument to GET, you may also supply a URI; in fact, you'll see that that's what virtually all clients send, because otherwise virtual hosts will be broken.
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      Virtual Hosts work with a Host: field in the header. An URI is syntactically correct in this place, however the semantic is "proxy this". It's mentioned because the protocol for proxies is HTTP too.
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        Ugh, you're right, I forgot about the Host: header.

        ACK the point on semantic indication, too. I stand corrected!

        In any case, the IO::All code still needs to be fixed so that it looks for the object after a single slash; and without query params; and it should discard the HTTP version string, too, if it's not doing anything with it.
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