[Chiznibitz]

I thought it would be pretty cool if I could use WebKit to connect to an IP address and send a custom host header to tell the server which site I want to see. Apparently, Apple has better ideas.

NSURL *myURL = [[NSURL alloc] initWithScheme:@"http" host:@"127.0.0.1" path:@"/index.html"];

NSMutableURLRequest *myRequest = [[NSMutableURLRequest alloc] initWithURL:myURL];

[myRequest setValue:@"www.apple.com" forHTTPHeaderField:@"Host"];

When I screw up the last line, say, by adding a colon after "Host" Apache complains about a malformed Host header.

When I don't screw it up, WebKit seems to ignore it completely and I get the default web site (Verified by my phpinfo.php page which lists $_SERVER["HTTP_HOST"] as "127.0.0.1").

I really hope someone can offer some insight into this problem and how to fix it, because I am at a loss.

Thanks,
Andy Kvochick

[Chiznibitz]

I still haven't made any headway on this. Does anyone else have any experience with WebKit?

[off/lang]

Have you tried your question in the webkit/webcore dev mailing lists?

http://lists.apple.com/mailman/listinfo

They would probably be helpful...

Good luck!