What is LiveHosts?
LiveHosts is a ip extension for chrome. it's a free extension , it has 10,000+ active users since released its first version, it earns an average rating of 3.43 from 28 rated user, last update is 1000 days ago.
What’s new in version 2.0.0?
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
How to install LiveHosts?
You could download the latest version crx file or older version files and install it.
Preview of LiveHosts
Technical Features:
- Latest Version: 2.0.0
- Requirements: Windows Chrome, Mac Chrome
- License: Free
- Latest update: Tuesday, March 29th, 2022
- Author: Aioros
LiveHosts Available languages:
English.
FAQ
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What about others talk about livehosts chrome extension?
38% user give 5-star rating, 13% user give 4-star rating, 19% user give 3-star rating, 6% user give 2-star rating, 25% user give 1-star rating. Read reviews of livehosts
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How could i get help if there is something wrong with livehosts chrome extension?
You could find more help information from livehosts support page.
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How could i contact the developer of livehosts chrome extension?
You could send emails to publisher, or check publisher's website.
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What are the required permissions for extensions?
- declarativeNetRequestWithHostAccess
- scripting
- storage
- *://*/*
More about manifest_file of livehosts.
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How could i report abuse of livehosts chrome extension?
You could click to report abuse of livehosts.
Reviews of livehosts:
It works for viewing test website while building them, Does not work with SSL's but as a website buidling tool very helpful The only thing its missing so I have to bring it down to 4 stars is a enable and disable button on the records so I had to keep typing them in everytime
It does not work as it rewrites your url to use the desired IP instead of the dns address. It does not work because when the browser tries to match the SSL certificate with the domain name they'll never match!!!
So incredibly simple. I no longer have to edit my hosts file and best of all, I can choose to enable it in only one tab. This is genious for my needs. Thank you =)