Shawn Holwegner wrote:
>
>    The most common form of Request-URI is that used to identify a
>    resource on an origin server or gateway. In this case the absolute
>    path of the URI MUST be transmitted (see section 3.2.1, abs_path) as
>    the Request-URI, and the network location of the URI (authority) MUST
>    be transmitted in a Host header field. For example, a client wishing
>    to retrieve the resource above directly from the origin server would
>    create a TCP connection to port 80 of the host "www.w3.org" and send
>    the lines:
> 
>        GET /pub/WWW/TheProject.html HTTP/1.1
>        Host: www.w3.org

So if I can connect to server X and retrieve pages from server A on a
completely unrelated network, does this indicate an overly lax
configuration?

eg:

  casper@casper:~$ nc www.serviceX.com 80
  GET / HTTP/1.1
  Host: www.serviceA.com

Txs,

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