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

Answers herein are correct. A bit more knowledge: These will not work with cert pinning. What you can do is either (1) use a domain wildcard cert to support your dev/test/qa region testing. And/or (2) use a reverse proxy server such as Apache whereby you change to where Apache routes the requests within your network. Now, when you get into SSL Pinning testing then you are dead in the water with the physical devices and can only validate with simulator (ios) and emulator (android).