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Old 11-28-2011
Specifying IP address with curl/wget

Hello,

I am wondering does anyone know of a method using curl/wget or other where by I could specify the IP address of the server I wish to query for a website.

Something similar to editing /etc/hosts but that can be done directly from the command line. I have looked through the man pages for both curl and wget and the only options to specify and IP address refer to choosing the bind-address if your machine is bound to multiple IP's.

Perhaps I am looking at this in the wrong way. Any suggestions on how I may get this to work are welcome.

Thanks,
Colin
# 2  
Old 11-28-2011
Code:
wget -o /dev/null -O output.html "www.unix.com"

output.dat file will contain the HTML of www<dot>unix<dot>com. You can also specify IP address instead of the URL. Is this what you're looking for?
# 3  
Old 11-28-2011
Hello balajesuri,

Thank you for your reply.

Lets say I have a website example.com hosted on two separate servers, 1.3.5.7 and 2.4.6.8.

To view each version of the site I would normally edit my /etc/hosts file to point the IP address of the server I wish to query.

What I am looking to do is use wget/curl to send the header requests to a specific IP address

i.e: wget -o /dev/null -O output.html "www.example.com" --ip 2.4.6.8 (or something to that effect)

From what I have read in the last few minutes this does not seem possible with wget or curl (I stand to be corrected).

Colin
# 4  
Old 11-28-2011
Hello colinireland,

If there isn't any restraint on using the IP address directly, you may use the following in your script:
Code:
wget -O output.html "2.4.6.8"

# 5  
Old 11-28-2011
Hello balajesuri,

Sorry I should have mentioned that the server is a shared hosting server so many domains are sharing the same IP address. Perhaps PHP has some answers?

Regards,
Colin
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