I thought the first line only contained the absolute path, not the host name. I assume it's checking the host: parameter? Just checked and twitter.com will acc

I thought the first line only contained the absolute path, not the host name. I assume it's checking the host: parameter? Just checked and twitter.com will accept an HTTP/1.0 request (which doesn't require a host to be specified). So one way to get around this block might be to set up a local proxy that uses HTTP/1.0 to connect remotely.