Sorry if this isn't a Network question...

Back Ground:
I have an installer that I have to re-install often for testing. Deep in the installer is a call to a static server that uses wget to down load the same large file from a fairly slow server every time and it add 15-20 minutes to an already long process.

Would love to update the installer to have it check for a cached version but that is out of my control.


Question:
Working on RHEL 6 is there anyway to listen to / configure something(?) that would allow me to redirect a static IP wget http request to a local apache server?

What are you accessing to get to the server? A hostname or an IP address? If it's a hostname then you can just put that hostname into the local /etc/hosts file as 127.0.0.1 and then just run apache listening on localhost.

It is a static IP address.

I couldn't really screw around with host name anyway. It is pretty important to the later parts of the install.

Okay, not pretty, but I found a solution. I renamed wget to _wget created a bash script named wget that just looks for the file name in the input parameters. If it finds the name it copies the file from local otherwise it just passes the request to _wget.

So basically you've renamed an original program to something else, that's not a good idea.

I didn't say it was an ideal solution....


It does still allow for normal functionality. My wget just echos any request I don't want to redirect to the renamed _wget