[issue8884] Allow binding to local address in http.client

Gaz Davidson added the comment: Oops, I didn't see that in the 2.7 docs, I'll make sure I RTFM in future! source_address will do perfectly, sorry for wasting your time and thanks for the quick response. Cheers Gaz -- ___ Python trac

[issue8884] Allow binding to local address in httplib / http.client

New submission from Gaz Davidson : The option to bind to a local IP address when creating an HTTP connection would be very useful for web testing tools like FunkLoad and webunit. For example in FunkLoad it would allow us to run tests with IP-based load balancing. -- components: IO