Set cURL to use local virtual hosts

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Actually, curl has an option explicitly for this: --resolve

Instead of curl -H 'Host: yada.com' http://127.0.0.1/something

use curl --resolve 'yada.com:80:127.0.0.1' http://yada.com/something

What’s the difference, you ask?

Among others, this works with HTTPS. Assuming your local server has a certificate for yada.com, the first example above will fail because the yada.com certificate doesn’t match the 127.0.0.1 hostname in the URL.

The second example works correctly with HTTPS.

In essence, passing a “Host” header via -H does hack your Host into the header set, but bypasses all of curl’s host-specific intelligence. Using --resolve leverages all of the normal logic that applies, but simply pretends the DNS lookup returned the data in your command-line option. It works just like /etc/hosts should.

Note --resolve takes a port number, so for HTTPS you would use

curl --resolve 'yada.com:443:127.0.0.1' https://yada.com/something

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