[CS-FSLUG] HTTP GET request

[Peter J. Vasquez Sr.]

Ed,
  I don't know of any client commands you could use, but the easiest
method for testing sites would be adding the FQDN to public IP mapping
on your computer's hosts file so it's resolved for you locally.  Then,
when you try and connect to a site you know is being hosted by a
server, you get the effect of a functional DNS even when DNS might be
flaky or unavailable.  Hope this helps.  Let me know if you were
looking for something else, and I'll be glad to assist if able.
Thanks.

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Peter J. Vasquez Sr.

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 7:37 PM, Ed Hurst <ehurst at soulkiln.org> wrote:
> I'm trying to read up on the background chatter we seldom see when we
> surf the web. I understand enough of the GET request to do it manually
> with telnet for simple things. For those of you who know more than me,
> perhaps you can answer a hypothetical question.
>
> Pretend I'm having trouble with DNS, as indeed happens too often where I
> live. Let's say I know the server IP address, and I know the domain
> names hosted there I would like to see. In a graphical browser, telling
> it to find a certain IP address doesn't usually serve much purpose,
> since that's usually a generic landing page (frequently supplied by
> Apache). Is there a way to formulate the URL in my graphical browser so
> that it asks the server for a particular domain we know it's hosting
> when DNS won't provide the translation?
>
> Ed Hurst
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