curl-and-python

Re: pyCurl : get IP address of the peer socket

From: Kjetil Jacobsen <kjetilja_at_gmail.com>
Date: Tue, 9 Sep 2008 14:01:18 +0200

hi,

my plan is to relelease pycurl 7.19 sometime this week.

regards,
    - kjetil

On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 1:31 PM, ferrety ferrety <yferrety_at_gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi Daniel,
>
> Unfortunately, "pycurl" is only compatible with libCurl version 7.18.2
> (I've checked the source code and there's no reference to
> "PRIMARY_IP") :
> http://pycurl.sourceforge.net/
>
> So, there no way to use "PRIMARY_IP".
>
> While waiting a pyCurl upgrade or another advice, I'm using this litttle hack:
>
> import socket
> from urlparse import urlparse
>
> url = 'http://curl.haxx.se/'
> try:
> ipadrr = socket.gethostbyname_ex( urlparse( url )[1] )[2][0]
> except:
> ipaddr = 'unknown'
>
>
> which works almost all the time.
>
> Regards
> Ferret
>
>
> On Tue, Sep 9, 2008 at 12:48 PM, Daniel Stenberg <daniel_at_haxx.se> wrote:
>> On Tue, 9 Sep 2008, ferrety ferrety wrote:
>>
>>>> sock = curl.getinfo(pycurl.LASTSOCKET);
>>
>>> So, is it the right way to do it?
>>
>> No. The Right Way(tm) is to use PRIMARY_IP, but that requires libcurl 7.19.0
>> and a pycurl updated to support it.
>>
>> The LASTSOCKET approach has the fatal flaw that sometimes there's no socket
>> returned since the connection may have already been closed...
>>
>> --
>>
>> / daniel.haxx.se
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