There's no clean way to do it but you might be able to do a combination of
what Victor/Grumpicus are suggesting...
You could setup a local httpd instance that forwards all requests to the
original server and accounts for that specific file with a rewrite rule and
then you'd just point your host file to your local webserver... I think
that would do what you want but its not the cleanest solultion...
Just a thought...
-Mike
On , Grumpicus <[email protected]> wrote:
Mark,
Given that you appear to be looking for a Linux solution, this won't
probably help you directly, but I've successfully used
http://www.fiddlertool.com/Fiddler2/help/AutoResponder.asp to do what
I think you're looking for on a Windows machine. Perhaps
http://www.charlesproxy.com/
has a similar feature.
Good luck,
--Erik
On May 23, 4:25 pm, Mark Phillip [email protected]> wrote:
> Hey guys, yeah, it's not a DNS issue. It's just one page that's having
> trouble returning, so I'm hoping to recreate just that one file
elsewhere.
>
> Sadly, it doesn't seem that it's possible, but I'm hoping for a way to
force
> the box to use a custom URL whenever it's looking for a specific file
on a
> specific domain.
>
> Thanks,
> Markhttp://markphillip.com
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 4:20 PM, Victor [email protected]> wrote:
> > If a hosts file works, then the IP of the target machine must be
> > fairly static. Can't you just use the IP of the machine in your
> > application instead of the hostname?
>
> > If for some reason you can't use the IP, another option is to make a
> > fake host:
>
> > mysuperduperfile.domain.com 1.2.3.4
>
> > Then you can update your application to use
> > mysuperduperfile.domain.com for that file.
>
> > That said, this doesn't seem like a DNS issue if only a single file of
> > many is having problems.
>
> > --Victor
>
> > On May 23, 3:45 pm, Mark Phillip [email protected]> wrote:
> > > Hey folks,
>
> > > I have an unusual dependency on an external file, and the 3rd party
> > server
> > > is having trouble returning it. There are multiple files on the
server
> > that
> > > I depend on, and it's just one file that's having trouble.
>
> > > With the hosts file I can tell the box that the entirety of a
domain maps
> > to
> > > a specific IP, but is there a way to tell the box to look for just a
> > > specific file on a different IP?
>
> > > Unfortunately, copying every file from the server and placing it on
a new
> > > one, isn't an option.
>
> > > Thanks,
> > > Markhttp://markphillip.com
>
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