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Re: Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap

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Post by tfh » Wed, Jan 27, 2010, 4:37 PM UTC

weavejester wrote: post #16

kordless wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

or even better, an easy-to-parse key value pair: ip=208.128.7.7

I'd contend that "208.128.7.7" is a more minimal, and useful, return value than "ip=208.128.7.7".

"ip=208.128.7.7" would be actually nice if the output would be like:

  ip=208.128.7.7
  location=france
  ua=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel blah blah

Re: Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap

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Post by jfr » Wed, Jan 27, 2010, 4:47 PM UTC

joss82 wrote: post #18

shizcakes wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Usually those services tell you your public IP. This service says my IP is 10.1.3.46, and while technically correct, useless.

How can it give you your private IP address? I'm curious... Is there a javascript call to list the IP addresses of any machine? That feels very insecure to me. EDIT: Sorry I forgot to turn on my joke detector.

It probably gets it from the X-Forwarded-For HTTP reader inserted by his intranet proxy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For

Re: Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap

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Post by kordless » Wed, Jan 27, 2010, 5:03 PM UTC

weavejester wrote: post #16

kordless wrote: post #14

Earlier quoted context omitted.

or even better, an easy-to-parse key value pair: ip=208.128.7.7

I'd contend that "208.128.7.7" is a more minimal, and useful, return value than "ip=208.128.7.7".

Yes, I agree, especially for shell scripts and such. A service should give me 1) plain text, 2) key value pairs, 3) json, and 4) human readable/copyable output.

Re: Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap

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Post by dopkew » Wed, Jan 27, 2010, 5:16 PM UTC

I just found this great site giving extensive information:

http://ip-lookup.net/

Re: Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap

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Post by viraptor » Wed, Jan 27, 2010, 9:49 PM UTC

For some additional crap, check http://www.ipspotting.com/ - also easy to remember and fun in new places.

Re: Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap

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Post by tejji » Thu, Jan 28, 2010, 4:37 AM UTC

here is another one http://tejji.com/ip/my-ip-address.aspx

Re: Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap

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Post by denisu » Thu, Jan 28, 2010, 12:43 PM UTC

shizcakes wrote: post #8

chaosmachine wrote: post #5

http://whatismyip.org/ A bit easier to spell/remember.

Usually those services tell you your public IP. This service says my IP is 10.1.3.46, and while technically correct, useless.

Thanks for the feedback, it should now display the correct HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR-header if available.