On Thu, 10 May 2001, Steve Atkins wrote:

> I need to be able to send an HTTP request to a specific IP address,
> overriding the hostname->IP mapping that libcurl would normally do,
> something like:
>
> curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://example.invalid/")
> curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_ADDRESS, "172.17.10.11")
>
> ...to connect to 172.17.10.11 and do a
>
> GET / HTTP/1.1
> Host: example.invalid
>
> Is this functionality there? If not, would it be a useful addition to
> patch in?

The functionality is there, but the approach is slightly different. Use an
existing and working URL, and then add your own 'Host:' header. Something
like this:

  struct curl_slist *heads;

  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_URL, "http://172.17.10.11");

  heads = curl_slist_append(heads, "Host: example.invalid");
  curl_easy_setopt(curl, CURLOPT_HTTPHEADER, heads);

  curl_easy_perform(curl);

  curl_slist_free_all(heads);

-- 
  Daniel Stenberg -- curl project maintainer -- http://curl.haxx.se/
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