Someone at the BruCON conference told me that curl has a better option to handle the issues I talked about in my diary entry "Downloading Samples From Takendown Domains".

It's the --resolve option (more solutions can be found in "Name resolve tricks").

One uses that option like this: --resolve hostname:port:ip_address

Didier Stevens
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