Re^3: Direct a LWP connection to a different host

This should work too, at least somewhat, because the main difference between the proxy request and the real request is that the GET request is changed from a relative to an absolute URL:

Host: www.google.com
GET http://www.google.com/
[download]

instead of

Host: www.google.com
GET /
[download]

But yes, that somewhat invalidates the intent to just redirect the socket connection and leave everything else as-is, to fake a different name resolution as there actually is.

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Re^4: Direct a LWP connection to a different host by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 31, 2005 at 07:56 UTC
Yes, and I expected servers would return a 5XX response in such cases, It seems that instead, those I tried this with treat a request of this form as a request for the server root. So in a roundabout way it accidentally works as intended for (some of) the uses discussed in the root node. Strange. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^5: Direct a LWP connection to a different host by hossman (Prior) on Jan 31, 2005 at 08:18 UTC
Good point, this may not work with every HTTP server out there. all of the servers i've ever seen (that understand HTTP/1.1) use the Host header to determine the virtual host, and ignore the hostname from the request line. but there is no garuntee that that's tru for ALL HTTP servers.	[reply]