URL's Host Switcher
Developer Tools
A tool for quickly switching the host of the current url. make it easy to jump the same path in a local, test or prod environment
Users
851
Rating
2.4
Reviews
5
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+49|6.11%
Stable signalUnknownHigh-risk permissions
LiveHosts
Switch your host/IP mappings in real time without editing your hosts file
Users10KCurrent public install base
Rating3.2Store average score
Reviews43Public review volume
Manifest versionV3Extension platform version
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Version2.0.0
ManifestV3
Size57.78KiB
Languages1English
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LiveHosts is a Chrome extension that aims at providing a working (even if sub-obtimal) solution to a common nuisance that many web developers have to deal with every day. If you have multiple versions of your websites sharing the same host names on multiple environments, you often need to switch the assignments in your OS hosts file.
Other extensions (like the life-saving HostAdmin) can help with the cumbersomeness, but changes to the hosts file usually take an inconvenient amount of time to actually affect the browser.
Unfortunately, there is no way to make Chrome direct requests for a hostname to a specific IP without a standard redirect - you could set up a smart HTTP proxy, but it's often not possible or not convenient.
This extension settles for a sub-obtimal approach: requests to the indicated hostnames are redirected to the chosen IPs with an additional Host header. The browser's address bar reflects this behaviour showing the hostname right after the IP (e.g. http://127.0.0.1/www.example.com/). The extension also tries to take care of all requests to either the IP or the hostname in a consistent way.
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After the redirect, the user is effectively in a different domain that the one they expected. They may notice some functional differences:
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Store average score3.2Chrome Web Store aggregate rating, including ratings without synced review text
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Total ratings / reviews43Chrome Web Store public rating/review count
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PT-BR. Vou dar 5 estrelas pela criatividade, mas no mundo atual, em que HTTPS já se tornou o protocolo padrão de fato e as diversas proteções CORS (Cross Origin Resource Sharing) também já estão bastante comuns, a extensão não tem mais valia. Recomendo o serviço SkipDNS, que não depende de extensão e funciona até mesmo em dispositivos móveis, sem necessidade de configuração prévia por parte das outras pessoas com quem você quiser compartilhar o link de pré-visualização. English. I'll give it 5 stars for creativity, but in today's world, where HTTPS has become the de facto standard protocol and the various CORS (Cross Origin Resource Sharing) protections are also quite common, the extension has no added value. I recommend the SkipDNS service, which is extension-free and even works on mobile devices, with no prior setup required by the other people you want to share the preview link with.
Єдине розширення яке запрацювало так, як очікувалося.
什么鬼东西，发出去的请求中的host居然是ip地址？开发者有基本常识吗？
Non funziona come dovrebbe, non sostituisce la necessità di modificare il file hosts
It works for viewing test website while building them, Does not work with SSL's but as a website buidling tool very helpful The only thing its missing so I have to bring it down to 4 stars is a enable and disable button on the records so I had to keep typing them in everytime
It does not work as it rewrites your url to use the desired IP instead of the dns address. It does not work because when the browser tries to match the SSL certificate with the domain name they'll never match!!!
Perfecto para editores web como yo, puedes tener una web con el dominio apuntando a ella y otra que estés creando nueva sin tener que apuntar el dominio a esta última, a veces tarda, pero es genial poder ver en el mismo navegador un mismo dominio y dos webs :D
So incredibly simple. I no longer have to edit my hosts file and best of all, I can choose to enable it in only one tab. This is genious for my needs. Thank you =)
Thanks. It helps!
This does not work as I was expecting. It simply changes the URL in the Address bar to the IP.