[geeks] HTTP GET with method?

[Mouse]

I've been seeing, more and more recently, requests to my HTTP daemon
like

2026-04-24 19:02:31 Tangent bozohttpd[29369]: got request ``GET http://ftp.rodents-montreal.org/pub/mouse/git-unpacked/predict/diff/ HTTP/1.1'' from 14.255.31.77 to port 80

Did I miss something?  Is it valid to include the method://host part in
the GET request's argument?

I'd take these for attempts to use me as a proxy except that (almost?)
all of them are, like the above, asking for something from the very
server they're sent to.  Maybe they're attempting to test whether I can
be used as a proxy?  Is that what a proxy request would look like?

Anyone happen to know (and feel like talking about it)?

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