This usually occures when a re-direct is followed from a servers HTTP location: header that did not specificy the host.
i.e. location: /page2.html
instead of: location: https://www.spirent.com/page2.html
From RFC2616 section 14.23 Host
<…snip> A client MUST include a Host header field in all HTTP/1.1 request messages . If the requested URI does not include an Internet host name for the service being requested, then the Host header field MUST be given with an empty value <…snip>
All Internet-based HTTP/1.1 servers MUST respond with a 400 (Bad Request) status code to any HTTP/1.1 request message which lacks a Host header field.
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