How can I redirect HTTP requests made from an iPad?

Question

Since on an iPad we cannot edit the hosts file (without jailbreaking), how can we arbitrarily redirect web traffic to another url?

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Answer 1

Nice tutorial to do so: http://egalo.com/2012/05/29/testing-mac-web-site-using-local-hostname-on-mobile-device/

An other way is to connect the IPad via Local Hotspot with my MAC OS X and establish an port-forwarding to the development VM. To achieve this I'v done the following Steps:

• on MAC OS X create a WLAN-Hotspot Link how to do this
• connect the iPAD with the Hotspot-WLAN (on iPAD >> Settings >> WLAN)
• Add the ServerAlias to the local development-VM (details below)
• establish ssh-portforwarding
  ssh -NL :::80
• int the iPADs Browser open the page with the IP
  :

Where to get 'IP-of-hotspot-host':

After created hotspot there is a WLAN-Point in
MAC OS X system settings >> Network >> WLAN

Adding the ServerAlias:

At my development-VM (Apache2) in /etc/apache2/sites-available/dkr.dev.local I had to add the following:

  
    ...  
    ServerAlias   
    ...