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Gabriel R.
Asked: 2010-11-12 07:38:36 +0800 CST

Browser-level DNS settings, to work like the hosts file at system level

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The web application we develop is doing certain things depending on the domain and subdomains in the address. To be able to develop and test everything on a local environment, one would need to bind the domains to 127.0.0.1, using the hosts file.

However, this would cut that machine off from accessing the live server domains.

Question: Is there a browser-level hack that allows one to do hosts-like stuff, only for that browser?

UPDATE: A proxy .pac file can do this just fine. Like this:

function FindProxyForURL(url, host) {
      if (shExpMatch(url,"*.example.com/*")){
         return "PROXY 127.0.0.1:80";
      }
   }

Yay!

domain-name-system web-server hosts-file

2 Answers

  1. Best Answer

    You can do pretty clever things with a proxy auto-config file. Try one that returns PROXY 127.0.0.1:80 for the domains you want affected and DIRECT for the rest.

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  2. Maybe there's a HTTP proxy that will do what you want?

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