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shawndrost
on June 8, 2012
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Xip.io - a magic domain name that provides wildcar...
I've also made use of lvh.me (local virtual host), a url who's dns points at 127.0.0.1. It's good for testing subdomains on localhost.
no_more_death
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localhost.microsoft.com and localhost.yahoo.com also used to redirect to 127.0.0.1. And, of course, this wreaked utter havoc with cookies (since cookies are accessible across the entire domain). Zalewski discusses in TTW (The Tangled Web).
DNS hackery is really dangerous.
ajasmin
on June 8, 2012
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I gather that Xip.io have the same issue with cookies.
adgar
on June 8, 2012
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Yes, but xip.io doesn't host any production services with which test cookies might interact.
shanselman
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I like
http://localtest.me
because it's the only one I've seen with a valid wild card SSL...makes testing and switching between HTTP and HTTPS easy.
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