Re: [squid-users] Incorrect HTTP GET request from squid

Frank Eibisch wrote:
> > the cache server. Why doesn't the cache server just send the same GET
> > request (GET http://www.smh.com.au/ HTTP/1.0) that my browser is
> > sending? Instead of GET / HTTP/1.0
>
> Because it does not have to. If you try to fetch http://www.smh.com.au you
> first get the IP-address of www.smh.com.au, which is 203.26.51.42 for me.

Further, there is web servers who contrary to the HTTP/1.1 specification can't
accept requests with a full URL in the request line..

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