On 01 Jun 15:54, Mark Rogers wrote:
Brett Parker wrote:
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import urllib2
req = urllib2.Request("http://ip.add.of.server/path/to/thing/") req.add_header("Host", "the hostname you really want to present") resp = urllib2.urlopen(req) data = resp.read()
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Note to self: really must learn python! That said I think I can replicate the above in PHP.
Thanks for that, I should have thought about it that way round myself. (I'd been thinking about how to connect by hostname but override the IP, rather than connect by IP but then override the host.)
Well, the hostname is part of the HTTP/1.1 spec, it doesn't exist in HTTP/1.0 and so it's the right way round to think of it ;) Back in the HTTP/1.0 days there wasn't a way to have multiple virtual hosts on the same IP (well, other than different port numbers). I tend to think things through in terms of the specs, which is quite handy :)
But, anyways - see the other post in this thread for how to do it with wget - there's probably a way of doing that with curl but I don't know how at the moment... oh, apparently...
curl -H "Host: the.host.name" http://the.ip.add.ress/
Should do what you're after too :)
Cheers,