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| Date | 2011-06-15 16:45 +1000 |
| Subject | Re: Question regarding DNS resolution in urllib2 |
| From | Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.python |
| Message-ID | <mailman.259.1308120313.11593.python-list@python.org> (permalink) |
On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 4:23 PM, saurabh verma <nitw.saurabh@gmail.com> wrote: > But in the case of https , I can do above because https handshake is based on the domain i am trying to connect , so lets say I want to following inside a python script using libcurl2 but without touching /etc/hosts , > > curl “https://something.com” , now something.com will try to connect to either IPA or IPB which I don’t have control over , I know internally it must be calling a DNS resolver libarary of python , I want to control over that , may be libcurl2 exposing a function to do some DNS altering . If you edit your hosts file, it will affect where something.com points - you can force it to be IPA and then test, then force it to IPB and test. You'll still be downloading https://something.com so the HTTPS handshake should work exactly the same way. Chris Angelico
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Re: Question regarding DNS resolution in urllib2 Chris Angelico <rosuav@gmail.com> - 2011-06-15 16:45 +1000
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