Bug#549103: libwww-perl: DNS Resolver fails to respect /etc/resolv.conf

[gregor herrmann]

On Thu, 01 Oct 2009 09:01:04 +0300, Niko Tyni wrote:

> > There's indeed some interesting magic going on:
> This is very much a feature, although the documentation seems to be
> lacking.

Thanks for digging this up, Niko!
I assumed something like that but my grep foo failed miserably
yesterday.
 
>   Thu Nov  6 1997   Gisle Aas <aas at sn.no>
>    o  The lwp-request script now use URI::Heuristic for it's URL arguments.
>       It means that 'lwp-request perl' will not get a file called "./perl"
>       but will fetch the page "http://www.perl.com" or something similar.
>       If you want to get the file you have to prefix it with "./".  Full
>       URLs are never affected by this.

I suggest to close this bug since the behaviour is intentional and
the module works as designed.

Cheers,
gregor 
 
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