Specifying an IP address for outbound connections?

[erikcw]

Python seems to default to the main system IP for outbound connections
(such as urllib), but I want to bind to one of my other IPs for
outbound connections.

Any ideas?

Thanks!

 

[Martin v. Löwis]

Python seems to default to the main system IP for outbound connections
(such as urllib), but I want to bind to one of my other IPs for
outbound connections.

Any ideas?

Just use the .bind method of a socket to bind it to a specific address.
If you then want to continue to use urllib, you'll have to override a
lot of classes, or monkey-patch, or use, e.g., PyContext to selectively
replace httplib.HTTPConnection.connect.

Regards,
Martin