On Sat, 24 Nov 2007 16:38:21 +0100
"Jenda Krynicky" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: doubleHelix <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> > ok i know how i can find my INERNAL ip address in a script with perl:
> >
> > use Socket;
> > print inet_ntoa(inet_aton("")) ."\n";
> >
> > but how would I find my EXTERNAL ip address?
>
> Define external ... it's not as simple as it may sound. One
> definition could be "the address that my HTTP requests seem to come
> from". In that case:
>
> 1) Find an external web page that displays the IP address
> 2) send a request to that page using LWP::Simple
> 3) parse the result
Tip: the best site for this is whatismyip.org, which returns a page
containing *nothing* but the IP address - no HTML, no parsing necessary.
> Jenda
Celejar
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