Question regarding DNS resolution in urllib2

[saurabh verma]

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> If you edit your hosts file, it will affect where something.com points
> - you can force it to be IPA and then test, then force it to IPB and
> test. You'll still be downloading https://something.com so the HTTPS
> handshake should work exactly the same way.
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there are issues with editing /etc/hosts , what if i don't have sudo access
on the target server ? I need a way out programmatically to fix this problem
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