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RE:make curl connect to a given IP/vhost?

From: NIJSSEN <kees.nijssen_at_quicknet.nl>
Date: Tue, 07 Sep 2010 17:28:15 +0200

On 07/09/10, Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org> wrote:
I'm running a geo-ip web cache system.

Assuming I have a www.example.com domain configured, DNS replies with a different IP, depending on who asks (i.e. location in US would get a 1.1.1.1 address, location in Europe would get a 2.2.2.2 address, and so on).


Now, I'd like to monitor if each of the caches replies with correct content (i.e. a given page contains a given string).

Can I somehow make curl connect to a given remote IP and fetch a given vhost?


I'm thinking in something in the line of:

curl --remote-ip 1.1.1.1 www.example.com
curl --remote-ip 2.2.2.2 www.example.com


Is something like this possible with curl? I checked the manual, but I didn't find an option which would be similar in functionality.

If your client system supports multiple interfaces, you could perhaps use the --interface <name> option to make cURL use a specific network interface to connect to your server? According to the manual (http://curl.haxx.se/docs/manpage.html), <name> could also be an IP-address.

Have fun using cURL!


Kees Nijssen


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Received on 2010-09-07