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Re: Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search

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Post by fjarlq » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 7:31 AM UTC

noonespecial wrote: post #15

Ok, so I have a curl/awk one-liner that can get me my ip in shell scripts that uses checkip.dyndns.org. It's super simple because the results are super simple from checkip. Anyone want to take a stab at this for google's result page?

This works, but only accidentally:

    curl --silent 'http://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+my+ip' | sed 's/.*Client IP address: //;s/).*//;q'

Google responds with HTTP error 403 (Forbidden), but it just so happens the client IP address is in the error page.

Re: Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search

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Post by [deleted] » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 7:38 AM UTC

noonespecial wrote: post #15

Ok, so I have a curl/awk one-liner that can get me my ip in shell scripts that uses checkip.dyndns.org. It's super simple because the results are super simple from checkip. Anyone want to take a stab at this for google's result page?

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Re: Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search

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Post by pilif » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 7:48 AM UTC

shrikant wrote: post #6

27182818284 wrote: post #2

For months: http://www.wolframalpha.com/input/?i=what+is+my+ip

For months... what? This is what it shows me, here in my studio apartment in London: http://i.imgur.com/uXBJk.jpg Edit: I knew that IP looked familiar - this is likely because of the Modify Headers Firefox add-on. Oh well, still broken.

how would a modify headers add-on be able to let the server think that you are coming from a different address? It's not as if the browser sends the origin address as a HTTP header.

It doesn't have to. It's part of the IP packet which contains the TCP packet which contains the request headers.

Are you sure that you are not using a proxy server at the address Wolfram gives you?

Edit: On second thought, you could try to fool server-side detection by setting a non-standard X-Forwarded-For header, but a what is my ip service shouldn't trust that and just report the real remote address.

Re: Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search

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Post by larryw » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 7:52 AM UTC

I prefer http://www.moanmyip.com/

Re: Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search

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Post by brodd » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 7:56 AM UTC

vnuk wrote: post #16

rekoros wrote: post #4

Just "ip" works as well.

Doesn't work for me :| http://imgur.com/t9jA6

Looks like it's only active on .com

Re: Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search

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Post by jwblackwell » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 8:10 AM UTC

brodd wrote: post #25

vnuk wrote: post #16

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't work for me :| http://imgur.com/t9jA6

Looks like it's only active on .com

And on .co.uk. Probably something to do with local data centres

Re: Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search

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Post by forcer » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 8:20 AM UTC

sad day :(

Re: Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search

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Post by nodata » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 8:24 AM UTC

noonespecial wrote: post #15

Ok, so I have a curl/awk one-liner that can get me my ip in shell scripts that uses checkip.dyndns.org. It's super simple because the results are super simple from checkip. Anyone want to take a stab at this for google's result page?

Or use https://ip.appspot.com/

Re: Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search

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Post by martokus » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 8:28 AM UTC

And yet another search vertical killed by google's own results. At least they are not scraping the result this time, so nothing to blame.

Re: Google now tells you your IP when you ask it in search

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Post by gizzlon » Wed, Oct 19, 2011, 8:30 AM UTC

fjarlq wrote: post #21

noonespecial wrote: post #15

Ok, so I have a curl/awk one-liner that can get me my ip in shell scripts that uses checkip.dyndns.org. It's super simple because the results are super simple from checkip. Anyone want to take a stab at this for google's result page?

This works, but only accidentally: curl --silent 'http://www.google.com/search?q=what+is+my+ip' | sed 's/.*Client IP address: //;s/).*//;q' Google responds with HTTP error 403 (Forbidden), but it just so happens the client IP address is in the error page.

haha, nice one