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giltjr
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May 08, 2014

I'm pretty sure that http, specifically http 1.1 and newer, is the only service that can send the host name as part of the protocol. That does not even really send the host name, it sends whatever is enter after the //. If you enter http://1.2.3.4, it sends 1.2.3.4 as the "hostname".