You do it in two steps:

1. compose a new URL, placing the machine IP address in place of the DNS
hostname.

2. Add a header "Host: www.mysite.com" to the request.

And you are done.

Warrick FitzGerald wrote:
> Hi All,
>
> I very often would like to make a request to a specific IP Address, but keep
> the host header etc exactly as if curl had done the lookup via DNS.
>
> For eample if I have 3 web servers behind a load ballancer, I would like to
> be able to make a request directly to Machine1's private address, with excly
> the same header as if it had resolved to the LoadBallanced IP.
>
> Is it possible to do something like curl www.mysite.com --user-this-ip
> 10.10.10.5 ?
>
> Thanks
> Warrick FitzGerald
>
>
>
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