Compare Chrome extensions: LiveHosts vs Website IP
Stats | LiveHosts | Website IP |
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User count | 10,000+ | 70,000+ |
Average rating | 3.47 | 4.08 |
Rating count | 36 | 207 |
Last updated | 2022-03-29 | 2013-03-03 |
Size | 59.17K | 57.28K |
Version | 2.0.0 | 1.5.2 |
Short description | |
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Switch your host/IP mappings in real time without editing your hosts file | Simple script which places the IP of the current website in the bottom right. |
Full summary | |
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. Issues 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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This extension simply adds the IP of the current website you are viewing to the bottom right. FEATURES:
PRIVACY: No-one sees the IP but you. There is no reliance on an external server to return the IP. Chrome returns the IP address itself on the users side. This takes into consideration local DNS and Host changes. If you like this extension please leave a comment below. I'd love to hear what you think about it and what features you'd like to see in later versions. Currently I'm planning a few features: 'Copy IP to clickboard' - This will be available from the popup options in the next version and the ability to disable on certain websites. |