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libwww-perl package

  1. Bug #199371
  2. Comment #4

Comment 4 for bug 199371

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Michael Jumper (zhangmaike) wrote : Re: Adware in libwww-perl

Searching google shows that this has happened before by many others who accidentally type GET / HTTP/1.1 on the command line.

To someone who expects only / to be returned, this seems like adware, but it actually is not; GET - being a command, not the HTTP request - tries to get two things: / and 1.1 from HTTP - which happens to resolve to www.HTTP.com.

So there actually is no problem.

GET / returns the expected result.
GET HTTP/1.1 returns the "adware"