Re: [Htmlunit-user] Using a domain name to connect to server running on 127.0.0.1

[Mike P. <mpo...@do...>]

I found instructions for the HttpClient that allowed the user to provide 
a different TCP socket factory implementation.  My understanding is that 
the class API takes in the host name and provides a socket connected or 
to connect to that host.  What I could not figure out how to do is 
provide HtmlUnit my own HttpClient.

Will the header method handle cookies correctly?

On 08/24/2011 02:56 PM, Ahmed Ashour wrote:
> Hi Mike,
>
> You need to programatically override DNS lookup, which is not possible 
> AFAIHK.
>
> You ideally should use 127.0.0.1, unless your web server needs the 
> "host" to work correctly.
>
> A workaround is to specify URL as "http://localhost", but explicitly 
> setting "Host" header to the hostname, so the actual connection goes 
> locally, but the web server detects the Host from the header.
>
> Hope that helps,
> Ahmed
> ----
> Blog: http://asashour.blogspot.com
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> *From:* Mike Power <mpo...@do...>
> *To:* htm...@li...
> *Sent:* Wednesday, August 24, 2011 5:09 AM
> *Subject:* [Htmlunit-user] Using a domain name to connect to server 
> running on 127.0.0.1
>
> I need to connect to my server using a domain name something like
> localhost.corp.com.  However the server I am trying to connected to is
> an internal web server I spawned on this host.  So it is actually
> running on address 127.0.0.1 and some randomly selected port.  Since
> I'll be running multiple tests at the same time on the same host I need
> to be able to tell the webClient to connect a specific domain name to a
> specific ip address (127.0.0.1).  So that the web application will
> behave correctly.  I probably won't be able to use /etc/hosts since this
> machine will be used by multiple groups and such configuration may not
> be under my control.
>
>     final WebClient webClient = new WebClient();
>     //????
>     final HtmlPage page = webClient.getPage("http://localhost.corp.com");
>
> Mike Power
>
>
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