Attribute

HostName (HOST)

Purpose

The base Salesforce URL or IP address of your Salesforce instance. If you are logging into a Salesforce instance other than the default, you must provide the root of the Salesforce URL or IP address.

Valid Values

url | ip_address

where:

url
is the is the root of the Salesforce URL to which you want to connect.
ip_address
is the is the IP address of the Salesforce instance to which you want to connect.

Example

Suppose you have a Salesforce instance that is configured with a production instance and a sandbox instance. You can specify login.salesforce.com as the value for the HostName attribute to connect to the production instance or test.salesforce.com to connect to the sandbox instance:

Salesforce Instance URL
Production login.salesforce.com
Sandbox test.salesforce.com

Default

login.salesforce.com