Hosts

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Introduction

Hosts can be thought as enhanced hosts of OS, Its most important feature is port forwarding.

Note: hiproxy support both hosts file and rewrite file. hosts is a simple solution so that it supports only forwarding domain & port. If you want custom complex forwarding rules, see rewrite as referrence.

Working mechanism

Hiproxy will parse hosts files in the projects’ immediate directories while it starts. The proxy server would forward received requests according to rules in hosts files.

Features

  • Port forwarding;
  • hosts file of project is used to instead of OS one and avoid system cache issue;
  • You do NOT need to restart hiproxy after modifying hosts file. Hiproxy can restart and refresh hosts rules automatically.

Syntax

The syntax of project hosts is very similar as OS one. Supporting IP+port is the only difference. The syntax is:

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IP[:port] domain1 domain2 domain3 ... domainN

For Example

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# custom hosts with port :)

127.0.0.1:8800 hiproxy.org blog.hiproxy.org
127.0.0.1 hiproxy.org blog.hiproxy.org