Re: Direct a LWP connection to a different host

if your only concern is LWP, then you can do this on a per UA basis using proxy settings...

use LWP::UserAgent;
my $u = LWP::UserAgent->new; $u->proxy("http","http://www.apache.org/"
+); 
print $u->get("http://google.com/")->as_string;
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UPDATE: your milage may vary based on the HTTP Server you connect to, see followup replies for details

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Re^2: Direct a LWP connection to a different host by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 31, 2005 at 07:40 UTC
How can that work? HTTP requests sent to proxies differ from those sent to destination hosts. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^3: Direct a LWP connection to a different host by Corion (Patriarch) on Jan 31, 2005 at 07:45 UTC
This should work too, at least somewhat, because the main difference between the proxy request and the real request is that the `GET` request is changed from a relative to an absolute URL: `Host: www.google.com GET http://www.google.com/` [download] instead of `Host: www.google.com GET /` [download] But yes, that somewhat invalidates the intent to just redirect the socket connection and leave everything else as-is, to fake a different name resolution as there actually is.	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Direct a LWP connection to a different host by Aristotle (Chancellor) on Jan 31, 2005 at 07:56 UTC
Yes, and I expected servers would return a 5XX response in such cases, It seems that instead, those I tried this with treat a request of this form as a request for the server root. So in a roundabout way it accidentally works as intended for (some of) the uses discussed in the root node. Strange. Makeshifts last the longest.	[reply]
Re^5: Direct a LWP connection to a different host by hossman (Prior) on Jan 31, 2005 at 08:18 UTC