GET resolves incorrectly

Bug #835058 reported by James Haigh
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Bug Description

I found this weird bug at work the other day.

My work machine is called 'ellis'. I ran a webserver on port 80. I would expect the command 'GET ellis' to retrieve html from http://ellis/ .

Instead it retrieves http://www.waellis.co.uk/ !!

'ellis.co.uk' actually redirects to 'www.waellis.co.uk', but that doesn't explain where the '.co.uk' bit came from.

'wget ellis' works as expected, as does entering 'ellis' into the address bar of Firefox.

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