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
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851
Rating
2.4
Reviews
5
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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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It doesn't work for me at all? I give it a real hostname and an internal IP number but what it does is it redirects me to http://<given IP number>/<given hostname> Sorry, this makes no sense at all.
non funziona su chrome in osx
I'm not sure if I do something wrong or this extension is really not doing what it states. What I expect is that if there is a host test.dev which originally points to 1.1.1.1 and I want to try out another server with the same hostname then I add the new ip to the /etc/hosts like: 2.2.2.2 test.dev I tried the same with this plugin and all it does that it rewrites the URL of test.dev to 2.2.2.2 which makes no sense as it wont be caught by the same web server config
You save my life, man
UPDATE: I wrote the below review too soon, just based on the description of the extension. I was that excited. I've since discovered it has no effect at all in my browser. Will update this review if that changes. The other reviews are so recent, I don't think it's that the extension is outdated, at all. Will see what I can do. ORIGINAL REVIEW Absolutely brilliant. As a web developer and server admin, I often have to work with two versions of the same site (and old copy, and a freshly migrated copy, on a new server, for instance). I've had to rely on changing the Host file, clearing Mac OS cache, and then closing Chrome as it seems to retain DNS data even after I use its hidden option for clearing that data. It's a pain. This extension is perfect. Thank you. Please keep up the great contributions.
Does what it says it does, perfect. There are so many extensions which do not do what they claim to do (i.e. host swtich +). This lets you munge /etc/hosts without munging /etc/hosts. No more clearing DNS [not that it easy to inspect any more on newer chromiums, logging to file after the fact is v.poor substitute.] Anyways fantastic extension, no more vi, Ctrl-Shift-N. Saves lots of time.
Perfect! Easy to use and understand. I previously tried another extension which didn't work with HTTPS hosts, but this one did exactly what I needed 👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼