Set cURL to use local virtual hosts

Question

Using Apache or Ngnix I always create development sites based on real projects such as http://project1.loc which, after adding to my .hosts file, t

Answer 1

Making a request to

C:\wnmp\curl>curl.exe --trace-ascii -H 'project1.loc' -d "uuid=d99a49d846d5ae570
667a00825373a7b5ae8e8e2" http://project1.loc/Users/getSettings.xml

Resulted in the -H log file containing:

== Info: Could not resolve host: 'project1.loc'; Host not found
== Info: Closing connection #0
== Info: About to connect() to project1.loc port 80 (#0)
== Info:   Trying 127.0.0.1... == Info: connected
== Info: Connected to project1.loc (127.0.0.1) port 80 (#0)
=> Send header, 230 bytes (0xe6)
0000: POST /Users/getSettings.xml HTTP/1.1
0026: User-Agent: curl/7.19.5 (i586-pc-mingw32msvc) libcurl/7.19.5 Ope
0066: nSSL/1.0.0a zlib/1.2.3
007e: Host: project1.loc
0092: Accept: */*
009f: Content-Length: 45
00b3: Content-Type: application/x-www-form-urlencoded
00e4: 
=> Send data, 45 bytes (0x2d)
0000: uuid=d99a49d846d5ae570667a00825373a7b5ae8e8e2
<= Recv header, 24 bytes (0x18)
0000: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
<= Recv header, 22 bytes (0x16)
0000: Server: nginx/0.7.66
<= Recv header, 37 bytes (0x25)
0000: Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2010 15:37:06 GMT
<= Recv header, 25 bytes (0x19)
0000: Content-Type: text/html
<= Recv header, 28 bytes (0x1c)
0000: Transfer-Encoding: chunked
<= Recv header, 24 bytes (0x18)
0000: Connection: keep-alive
<= Recv header, 25 bytes (0x19)
0000: X-Powered-By: PHP/5.3.2
<= Recv header, 56 bytes (0x38)
0000: Set-Cookie: SESSION=m9j6caghb223uubiddolec2005; path=/
<= Recv header, 57 bytes (0x39)
0000: P3P: CP="NOI ADM DEV PSAi COM NAV OUR OTRo STP IND DEM"
<= Recv header, 2 bytes (0x2)
0000: 
<= Recv data, 118 bytes (0x76)
0000: 6b
0004: HTTP/1.1 403 Forbidden
0071: 0
0074: 
== Info: Connection #0 to host project1.loc left intact
== Info: Closing connection #0

My hosts file looks like:

# Copyright (c) 1993-1999 Microsoft Corp.
#
# This is a sample HOSTS file used by Microsoft TCP/IP for Windows.
#
# This file contains the mappings of IP addresses to host names. Each
# entry should be kept on an individual line. The IP address should
# be placed in the first column followed by the corresponding host name.
# The IP address and the host name should be separated by at least one
# space.
#
# Additionally, comments (such as these) may be inserted on individual
# lines or following the machine name denoted by a '#' symbol.
#
# For example:
#
#      102.54.94.97     rhino.acme.com          # source server
#       38.25.63.10     x.acme.com              # x client host

127.0.0.1       localhost
...
...
127.0.0.1   project1.loc