T wrote:
... there is no reliable way to get my IP now.
I know it's not the answer to your specific question, but in terms of
getting your IP address There's More Than One Way To Do It (tm) :-)
On my LinkSys DSL router I use a Perl script which uses LWP and
HTML::TreeBuilder to get the status page from the router and grok out
its IP address.
John Stumbles
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#!/usr/bin/perl
use warnings;
use strict;
use HTML::TreeBuilder 2.97;
use LWP::UserAgent;
parse_contents (get_page());
sub get_page {
my $ua = LWP::UserAgent->new ;
# 'dsl' is in my /etc/hosts, otherwise us IP address of your DSL
# router (192.168. etc private IP address as seen from connected PC)
$ua->credentials(
'dsl:80', # note 1
'Linksys BEFW11S4', # note 2
'foo', # DSL login user name
'bar' # DSL login passwd
) ;
my $request = HTTP::Request->new(
GET => 'http://dsl/Status.htm' # note 3
) ;
my $response = $ua->request( $request ) ;
unless($response->is_success) {
warn "No response: ", $response->status_line, "\n";
return;
}
return $response->content ;
}
# notes:
# 1 'dsl' in /etc/hosts is IP address (on private 192.168 network)
# of my DSL box
# 2 is string in web login box
# "Enter username and password for Linksys BEFW11S4 ..."
# 3 page containing public-facing IP address of DSL
sub parse_contents {
# this does the dirty work taking apart the HTML returned from the
web page
my $page_contents = shift or die "No contents returned from page\n";
my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new();
$tree->parse($page_contents);
my $table = ( $tree->look_down('_tag','table') )[3];
my $row = ( $table->look_down('_tag', 'tr' ) )[10];
my $inet_table = ( $row->look_down('_tag', 'td') )[0];
my $ipadd_row = ( $inet_table->look_down('_tag', 'tr' ) )[0];
my $ipadd_col = ( $ipadd_row->look_down('_tag', 'td' ) )[1];
#$ipadd_col->dump(); # debug
print "\t", $ipadd_col->as_text, "\n";
$tree->eof;
}
__END__
sub dump_contents {
my $page_contents = shift or die "No contents returned from page\n";
my $tree = HTML::TreeBuilder->new();
$tree->parse($page_contents);
$tree->dump();
$tree->eof;
}
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