Re: Getting external IP address

On Tue, 06 Mar 2007 14:40:37 -0500, Sergio Correia wrote: > The above suggestions seem nice, but I find this one easier: [snip] Thanks to everybody who replied, that's great. -- Steven. -- http://mail.python.org/mailman/listinfo/python-list

Re: Getting external IP address

The above suggestions seem nice, but I find this one easier: import urllib2 ext_ip = urllib2.urlopen('http://whatismyip.org/').read() print ext_ip The nice thing about the above code is that http://whatismyip.org/ only contains exactly what you want (the ip, nothing more, nothing less), so no par

Re: Getting external IP address

> I have a PC behind a firewall, and I'm trying to programmatically > determine the IP address visible from outside the firewall. > Steven Following is another alternative that might at least be worth consideration I use the lynx command shown as a command-line alias u

Re: Getting external IP address

Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I have a PC behind a firewall, and I'm trying to programmatically >determine the IP address visible from outside the firewall. > [ ... ] >Can anyone help me fix that code snippet, or suggest another (better) way >to get the externally visible IP address

Re: Getting external IP address

On Mon, 05 Mar 2007 09:02:44 +, Duncan Booth wrote: > Try running it interactively and looking at the data you receive: > conn = HTTPConnection('xml.showmyip.com') conn.request('GET', '/') > resp = conn.getresponse() print resp > data = resp.read() print data >

Re: Getting external IP address

Paul Rubin wrote: > Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: >> If you try connecting to 'www.showmyip.com' and requesting '/xml/' it >> should work. > > If the firewall is really obnoxious, it can bounce consecutive queries > around between multiple originating IP add

Re: Getting external IP address

Duncan Booth <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > If you try connecting to 'www.showmyip.com' and requesting '/xml/' it > should work. If the firewall is really obnoxious, it can bounce consecutive queries around between multiple originating IP addresses. That is uncommon but it's been done from time t

Re: Getting external IP address

Steven D'Aprano <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > from httplib import HTTPConnection from xml.dom.ext.reader.Sax import FromXmlStream conn = HTTPConnection('xml.showmyip.com') conn.request('GET', '/') doc = FromXmlStream(conn.getresponse()) print doc.getElementsByTagName(