Get Outgoing Port Number From Urllib2

I am using Python 2.6.x and urllib2 to do some web scraping, but I need really low-level socket information (really just the port number of the local socket) for each HTTP request.

Solution 1:

urllib2 can operate on different URL schemes, which may not even have a notion of socket. Instead, use http.client's undocumented sock property:

try:
    from http.client import HTTPConnection
except ImportError: # Python<3
    from httplib import HTTPConnection

h = HTTPConnection('example.net', 80)
h.request('GET', '/')
print('Local port: ' + str(h.sock.getsockname()[1]))