On Wed, Sep 30, 2009 at 10:21:28PM +0200, gregor herrmann wrote:
> On Wed, 30 Sep 2009 12:07:46 -0700, John H. Robinson, IV wrote:
>
> > The DNS resolver in lwp-request is doing odd things:
> > lwp-request -m HEAD libraries will bring up libraries.com
> > lwp-request -m HEAD http://libraries will bring up libraries.ucsd.edu
> > (I am in the uscd.edu domain)
>
> There's indeed some interesting magic going on:
This is very much a feature, although the documentation seems to be
lacking.
>From the upstream changelog:
Thu Nov 6 1997 Gisle Aas <a...@sn.no>
o Release 5.15
o New module URI::Heuristic
o The lwp-request script now use URI::Heuristic for it's URL arguments.
It means that 'lwp-request perl' will not get a file called "./perl"
but will fetch the page "http://www.perl.com"; or something similar.
If you want to get the file you have to prefix it with "./". Full
URLs are never affected by this.
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