[geeks] HTTP GET with method?

[Lionel Peterson]

I bet you're looking at HTTP GET requests that were "vibe coded" or AI coded to adhere strictly to the RFC Joshua points out...

A "normal" coder may never do that by hand, but an AI that was force-fed all RFCs and treats them all as equal & gospel would likely do something like that.

Just a thought,

Ken

> On Apr 24, 2026, at 17:43, Joshua D. Boyd via geeks <geeks at sunhelp.org> wrote:
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> 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.
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> 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,"
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> And apparently I'm way behind because 2616 was replaced in 2014 by 7230, which was then replaced in 2022 by 9112.
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> 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."
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> 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?
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> 
>> 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
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>> 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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