#!/usr/bin/env python
import urllib2
import socket
def _get_my_ip():
"""
Returns the actual ip of the local machine.
This code figures out what source address would be used if some traffic
were to be sent out to some well known address on the Internet. In this
case, a Google DNS server is used, but the specific address does not
matter much. No traffic is actually sent.
"""
try:
csock = socket.socket(socket.AF_INET, socket.SOCK_DGRAM)
csock.connect(('8.8.8.8', 80))
(addr, port) = csock.getsockname()
csock.close()
return addr
except socket.error:
return "127.0.0.1"
def set_proxy():
proxy = '127.0.0.1:8087'
opener = urllib2.build_opener( urllib2.ProxyHandler({'http':proxy}) )
urllib2.install_opener( opener )
if __name__=='__main__':
url = 'http://ifconfig.me/ip'
print urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
print _get_my_ip()
set_proxy()
print urllib2.urlopen(url).read()
print _get_my_ip()