Is anyone familiar with a way in which I can post a link on my website, that when accessed will cause users to issue an HTTP request to a 3rd party site with custom content in the HOST header (different from the actual host/domain to which the request is sent to on the IP level)? A short example to clarify my intention - a request sent to www.example.com:
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: $$CUSTOM_PAYLOAD$$ (not www.example.com)
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:25.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/25.0
Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,*/*;q=0.8
Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate
Connection: keep-alive
I have seen several discussions on the subject of issuing requests with CUSTOM headers, but this is not the case as the header is a legitimate header accepted by the recieving party. In addition, I have seen various publications on attacks (mainly reflected XSS) that rely on malicious input in the HOST header, although I am not quite sure how they can be executed.