This looked promising, but I couldn't quite get it to work even w/o --mirror:

wget --header="Host: www.yahoo.com" http://216.109.112.135/

(yes, 216.109.112.135 is one of Yahoo's IP addresses). The result is a
"sorry, page could not be found" error. A network sniffer shows I sent this:

GET / HTTP/1.0
User-Agent: Wget/1.8.2
Host: 216.109.112.135
Accept: */*
Connection: Keep-Alive
Host: www.yahoo.com

In other words, I sent 2 "Host:" headers, and yahoo.com used the first
one (the server I'm actually interested in does the same thing).

But this seems really close to what I want. Any suggestions/thoughts anyone?

On 6/18/07, Tony Lewis <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Try: wget http://ip.of.new.sitename --header="Host: sitename.com" --mirror

For example: wget http://66.233.187.99 --header="Host: google.com" --mirror

Tony
-----Original Message-----
From: Kelly Jones [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
Sent: Sunday, June 17, 2007 6:10 PM
To: wget@sunsite.dk
Subject: Suppressing DNS lookups when using wget, forcing specific IP
address

I'm moving a site from one server to another, and want to use "wget
-m" combined w/ "diff -auwr" to help make sure the site looks the same
on both servers.

My problem: "wget -m sitename.com" always downloads the site at its
*current* IP address. Can I tell wget: "download sitename.com, but
pretend the IP address of sitename.com is ip.address.of.new.server
instead of ip.address.of.old.server. In other words, suppress the DNS
lookup for sitename.com and force it to use a given IP address.

I've considered kludges like using "old.sitename.com" vs
"new.sitename.com", editing "/etc/hosts", using a proxy server, etc,
but I'm wondering if there's a clean solution here?

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