Force requests to use IPv4 / IPv6

Question

How to force the requests library to use a specific internet protocol version for a get request? Or can this be achieved better with another method in Python? I

Answer 1

This is a hack, but you can monkey-patch getaddrinfo to filter to only IPv4 addresses:

# Monkey patch to force IPv4, since FB seems to hang on IPv6
import socket
old_getaddrinfo = socket.getaddrinfo
def new_getaddrinfo(*args, **kwargs):
    responses = old_getaddrinfo(*args, **kwargs)
    return [response
            for response in responses
            if response[0] == socket.AF_INET]
socket.getaddrinfo = new_getaddrinfo