
checked against a domain name that includes the dot. In addition, some
servers 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).
