Addition to the http-client and http-client-tls libraries, that restricts the HTTP servers that can be used. This is useful when a security policy needs to eg, prevent connections to HTTP servers on localhost or a local network, or only allow connections to a specific HTTP server. It handles restricting redirects as well as the initial HTTP connection, and it also guards against DNS poisoning attacks.
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