[geeks] HTTP GET with method?

Fri Apr 24 22:41:21 UTC 2026

RFC 2616 calls what you are asking about the absoluteURI form of the Request-URI (see section 5.1.2). It says that form is required when making a request to a proxy.

It then says "To allow for transition to absoluteURIs in all requests in future versions of HTTP, all HTTP/1.1 servers MUST accept the absoluteURI form in requests,"

And apparently I'm way behind because 2616 was replaced in 2014 by 7230, which was then replaced in 2022 by 9112. 

9112 calls what you are seeing the absolute-form.  It also indicates that it is mostly used for proxies, before then saying "A server MUST accept the absolute-form in requests even though most HTTP/1.1 clients will only send the absolute-form to a proxy."

I was wondering if this was somehow connected to a client also supporting HTTP 2, but it looks like those requests are radically different in content. 

Either way it looks like the requests you are getting are fully valid ones, but a bit odd.

I wonder if this could be a result of them using an HTTP proxy on their end?

On April 24, 2026 4:38:23 PM EDT, Mouse via geeks <geeks at sunhelp.org> wrote:
>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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