may not expect to receive the trailing dot when provided. However, the hostname with trailing dot is critical to DNS resolution; doing a lookup with the trailing dot will properly only resolve the appropriate FQDN, whereas a lookup without a trailing dot will search the system's search domain list. Thus, it's important to keep the original host around for use only in those cases where it's appropriate (i.e., when doing DNS lookup to establish the actual TCP connection across which we're going to send HTTP requests). ú