Connect to the IP address and pass the Host header manually.
Ignacio Vazquez-Abrams
2010-04-02 20:58:27
+2
A:
But how would you know the IP? (Assuming it's not hardcoded - or is it?) You can't use a regular gethostbyname call, since that again uses the hosts file...
Wim
2010-04-02 21:02:07
You could use a separate DNS client to find it ... of course, that leads directly to the question: what DNS server?
SamB
2010-04-02 21:06:54
What if the domain name needs to go in the request header? See my edit.
mikez302
2010-04-02 21:17:49
Oh, right ... I dunno if urllib2 can handle that or not...
SamB
2010-04-02 21:25:26
For a separate DNS client, see dnspython.
bobince
2010-04-02 23:34:23