I’m running a web application that displays some debugging behavior if it’s being run locally – quotes around resource strings, etc – and I’d like to demo the application on my laptop at a conference where I won’t have internet access, so it has to be local.
The application uses HttpContext.Current.Request.IsLocal to determine if it’s running locally – is there any way to fool it? I’d like to trick it into returning “False” even though I am indeed running locally.
I do have access to the source code (and realize I could just demo a build where the “IsLocal” check is commented out), but would rather not make a special build for this demo. If need be, I’ll do that, but I’d rather use the existing codebase untouched.
That would require spoofing a non-local IP address in requests to your local instance of IIS. I think you’d probably spend less time just making a demo build than trying to make that work.