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I am using an online software program called Quick Books and it connects automatically to banking/cc sites to download your banking data based on pre-defined links for selected credit cards. Since the program is new to Canada, not all of the built in links for the credit card login pages can accommodate Canadian credit cards. I would like to have my router redirect the specific DNS request to my Canadian Credit Card login link instead of the the one it is asking for in the program.

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I don't think this will work. There are just so many ways it can go wrong it's near certain at least one of them will bite you. SSL, for example, won't tolerate a redirection because the common name will be wrong.. HTTP servers won't either, because the Host header will be wrong. – David Schwartz Nov 24 '12 at 17:23

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Unfortunately, this is not going to work at all. There are several barriers:

  1. A consumer grade router like the one you have at home does not do DNS redirect functionality.
  2. Even if you did a DNS redirect successfully, you would encounter errors with the SSL certificate not matching what Quickbooks expects (e.g. you redirect chase.com to chase.ca, Quickbooks would hopefully refuse to connect because the name on the certificate is chase.ca yet Quickbooks asked for chase.com as far as it knows).
  3. Finally, I'm not clear whether the site you wish to redirect to even supports the required APIs for Quickbooks to pull data from it.
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