Re^4: Direct a LWP connection to a different host

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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.

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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]

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