This looked promising, but I couldn't quite get it to work even w/o --mirror:
wget --header="Host: www.yahoo.com" http://216.109.112.135/
(yes, 216.109.112.135 is one of Yahoo's IP addresses). The result is a
"sorry, page could not be found" error. A network sniffer shows I sent this:
GET / HTT
Try: wget http://ip.of.new.sitename --header="Host: sitename.com" --mirror
For example: wget http://66.233.187.99 --header="Host: google.com" --mirror
Tony
-Original Message-
From: Kelly Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 6:10 PM
To: wget@sunsite.dk
Subject: Supp
modify /etc/hosts temporarily on the computer you are running wget
to add a line similar to
1.2.3.4 sitename.com # temporary hack to get new web site
pull the files then remove that line from /etc/hosts. this assumes
that /etc/hosts has precedence over dns (and yp or whatever) on your
machin