Background: I want to test a site on Akamai's staging network. This usually requires you to find out the IP address of the specific edge hostname and then change your local /etc/hosts file so the hostname is associated with the Akamai staging IP.
However, I need to use a proxy to access this specific site. So whatever I put in my local hosts file, the IP address will be looked up by the proxy and not by my local machine, which makes the whole thing pointless.
Is there a workaround for this? I don't have access to the proxy, and even if I had, I wouldn't want to log in there to mess with its hosts file everytime I need to test something on Akamai's staging network.
Also please don't write answers like "change your setup" - I know this is a weird configuration, and it's not the only one. I'm just interested if there is a technical solution to this.
CONNECT <IP address>instead ofCONNECT example.org.