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 totally untested and will probably require some tweaks, but combining answers from Using Python “requests” with existing socket connection and how to force python httplib library to use only A requests, it looks like you should be able to create an IPv6 only socket and then have requests use that for its connection pool with something like:

try:
    from http.client import HTTPConnection
except ImportError:
    from httplib import HTTPConnection

class MyHTTPConnection(HTTPConnection):
    def connect(self):
        print("This actually called called")
        self.sock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET6)
        self.sock.connect((self.host, self.port,0,0))
        if self._tunnel_host:
            self._tunnel()

requests.packages.urllib3.connectionpool.HTTPConnection = MyHTTPConnection