R. David Murray <rdmur...@bitdance.com> added the comment: You are correct that more than just httplib may need this; however, it is a real need. Consider for example a machine that has multiple IPs on the same network (perhaps there used to be two machines but the services were consolidated onto one or something), and some other server it talks to is using IP based security in its .htaccess file. So the client machine needs to bind to the IP address that the server machine has authorized to access the web service. This is why, for example, the ssh command has a '-b' option to specify the port to which the client binds. Or, for an even more apropos example, wget has a --bind-address option for this reason.
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