[CS-FSLUG] HTTP GET request

[Tim Young]

 From a windows box, you can use wfetch:
http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/en/details.aspx?FamilyID=b134a806-d50e-4664-8348-da5c17129210&displaylang=en

It lets you connect via IP but specify the virtual host you want to 
connect to, etc.

     - Tim Young

On 1/1/2011 7:20 AM, Ed Hurst wrote:
> On Sat, 01 Jan 2011 01:26:46 -0600, Peter J. Vasquez Sr. 
> <pjvasquez at baeyogin.com> wrote:
>
>> 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.
>
> I am aware of OpenDNS and host files and name-caching servers. I 
> was thinking more along the lines of asking the server at the other 
> end to perform a redirect, perhaps. That's the part I don't quite 
> get, but I've seen nasty crafted URLs used in phishing which appear 
> to send you one place you might trust, but actually gets you 
> directed to a malware bot. I was thinking there was a more 
> benevolent purpose possible, but don't know how to formulate it.
>