Smack a Ho.st - A localhost domain • Hacker News Board

The nice thing about this, for all of you people who understandably don't get it, is that setting up wildcard dns on OS X is a royal PITA. You can't just modify /etc/hosts, you have to http://www.macosxhints.com/article.php?story=200511022035208...

Given all rails developers use a Mac ;) this is useful.

Re: Smack a Ho.st - A localhost domain

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Post by jrockway » Fri, Mar 05, 2010, 6:35 AM UTC

volomike wrote: post #3

My /etc/hosts has: 127.0.0.1 me So I can do http://me/website-to-test/

But if you are developing a site that uses the subdomain as a routing rule, that fails. Your /etc/hosts entry won't make http://fuck.me/ go to your site, which is what smackaho.st will allow you to do.

Obviously this is easy enough to fake without DNS trickery; just modify the outgoing "Host:" header or teach your proxy how to "resolve" names in the form of "*.me".

Re: Smack a Ho.st - A localhost domain

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Post by Erwin » Fri, Mar 05, 2010, 7:00 AM UTC

Do you need subdomains specificially, or just different addresses that resolve to localhost? If so you could use e.g http://127.1:3000/, http://127.2:3000/ etc. (or the full 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.2 if your browser doesn't like 127.1).

Re: Smack a Ho.st - A localhost domain

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Post by 100k » Fri, Mar 05, 2010, 7:22 AM UTC

Erwin wrote: post #6

Do you need subdomains specificially, or just different addresses that resolve to localhost? If so you could use e.g http://127.1:3000/ , http://127.2:3000/ etc. (or the full 127.0.0.1 127.0.0.2 if your browser doesn't like 127.1).

Having subdomains is nice when you're developing an app that will use sudomains for accounts in production.

Re: Smack a Ho.st - A localhost domain

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Re: Smack a Ho.st - A localhost domain

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Post by olefoo » Fri, Mar 05, 2010, 8:29 AM UTC

Why is this specific to Rails?

The beauty of the web and of the internet protocols it's built on is that you can have multiple implementations that respond to the same interface. DNS doesn't care what language it's pointing to.

Re: Smack a Ho.st - A localhost domain

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Post by danparsonson » Fri, Mar 05, 2010, 8:41 AM UTC

olefoo wrote: post #9

Why is this specific to Rails? The beauty of the web and of the internet protocols it's built on is that you can have multiple implementations that respond to the same interface. DNS doesn't care what language it's pointing to.

It's not specific to Rails, only his example URL is - Rails listens on port 3000 by default. You could equally try http://iwishyouwouldnt.smackaho.st:80/ and get your local web server.