AbsoluteURI support in Play Framework 2.1

Seems that play framework doesn't support absolute uri in requests which is required by standard. Issue description is below.

As stated here:
http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec5.html

> To allow for transition to absoluteURIs in all requests in future versions of HTTP, all HTTP/1.1 servers MUST accept the absoluteURI form in requests, even though HTTP/1.1 clients will only generate them in requests to proxies.

I have client which sends POST-requests to my play-2.1.1 server. He sends it this way:

    POST http://172.16.1.227:9000/A8%3aF9%3a4B%3a20%3a89%3a40/1089820966/ HTTP/1.1
    Content-Length: 473
    Content-Type: application/json
    Date: Thu, 25 Apr 2013 15:44:43 GMT
    Host: 172.16.1.227:9000
    User-Agent: my-client

    ...some data...

All requests are rejected with "Action not found" error. The very same request which I send using curl is just fine and the only difference between them is curl send it with relative URI:

    POST /A8%3aF9%3a4B%3a20%3a89%3a40/1089820966/ HTTP/1.1
    Accept: */*
    Content-Length: 593
    Content-Type: application/json
    Host: 172.16.1.227:9000
    User-Agent: curl/7.30.0

I created the following simple workaround in Global.scala:

    override def onRouteRequest(request: RequestHeader): Option[Handler] = {
      if (request.path.startsWith("http://")) {
        super.onRouteRequest(request.copy(
          path = request.path.replace("http://"+request.host, "")
        ))
      } else super.onRouteRequest(request)
    }

And with this workaround all requests from my client are handled correctly. 

So can it be handled more transparently for users?