On Thu, 28 Nov 2013, Stefan Rogin wrote:

> A feature that could allow local dns would be nice:
> for example:
>
> 1. set url "http://site.com/page" and dns "8.8.8.8"
> 2. curl would first resolve the site.com to 123.123.123.123
> 3. forward the url to the proxy as "http://123.123.123.123/page" and
> with the request-url set to "http://site.com/page" (dose http proxy
> support this? could the CONNECT command be used if available?) as with
> shared hosting an IP is not enough to get the requested domain page.

You can do the name resolving locally and then pass in a URL with an IP number
and a correct Host: to the proxy. That's perfectly possible, although you'd
miss out on proper handling of multiple addresses for a name and happy
eyeballs etc.

> So in my case am I stuck using the proxy's dns?.

Yes, unless you do the manual fiddling to make the above happen.

I would say that your use case sounds very unusual.

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