July 13, 2020How to Access Name Based Servers in Development SetupThe problem You run a web application via nginx and you dispatch the requests based on the server name. And maybe the server name header only gets set via a proxy or an URL, which is currently or permanent not available in your dev setup. The solution curl -- header "Host: example.com" http://localhost Further information Blog post by the maintainer of curl: https://daniel.haxx.se/blog/2018/04/05/curl-another-host/