Changing the local address used by HttpURLConnection

Question

Hi,
I would like to make an HTTP connection to a remote server but using a different local IP address than the default one.
For example, I am running my application on a web server which has several IP addresses the code below will open a connection to a web page using the default address but how can I get the HttpURLConnection implementation to use an alternative address?
   URL url = new URL("http://www.somedomain.com/another/webpage.html");
   URLConnection conn = url.openConnection();
   InputStream in = conn.getInputStream();
   ...

Answer 1

More than one interface/ip on one machine? Shouldn't matter, unless they're going up and down like yoyos. IP will route via whichever one is appropriate.
I found this
(but haven't tried out...)Nor has that poster apparently. The DIRECT example just throws an IllegalArgumentException, and the HTTP approach requires you to write a local proxy server, which just shifts the problem (if any) in there.
like vm launch parametersNo.