Compare Chrome extensions: REAL MADRID CF vs LiveHosts

Stats REAL MADRID CF REAL MADRID CF LiveHosts LiveHosts
User count 369 10,000+
Average rating 5.00 3.47
Rating count 3 36
Last updated 2021-03-05 2022-03-29
Size 3.36M 59.17K
Version 3.2.1 2.0.0
Short description
Stay in the know and take advantage of an exclusive service thanks to the Official Real Madrid extension. Switch your host/IP mappings in real time without editing your hosts file
Full summary

Get a direct access in your browser to the official announcements, latest news and unpublished videos from Real Madrid matches and players. Follow the progress of the Santiago Bernabéu stadium virtually.

It will also allow you to access the club's official wallpapers so you can customise your browser, both the desktop and the search engine, as well as your favourite websites. Customise your set up like a madridista, and as well as improving your digital experience, you will be able to keep up to date with everything the club shares with its fans, news about the teams, live videos and interviews, exclusive promotions, access to ticket purchases and much more.

Add the extension to your browser in an easy and intuitive way and display your passion for the best club of the 20th century!

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:

  • depending on the server, parts of a web page referring to the site URL (like href and src attributes) could be different from the original
  • window.location has a different value that can potentially throw off JavaScript snippets
  • most Cross-Origin request won't work