OK - thanks Kee (and Sarah). Terry...
On 14/12/10 4:06 PM, "Kee Nethery" <k...@kagi.com> wrote: > I agree with Sarah and to explain why ... > > When your computer is inside a firewall or gateway or router that does Network > Address Translation (NAT > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Network_address_translation) there is no way to > know what your external address is because all your computer knows is it's > internal address and the internal address of the gateway that is connected to > the outside world. You have to talk to a machine outside your private network > and ask it what it sees as your IP address. There are a bunch of web sites > that will tell you the external address for your computer. You'll need to > parse the HTML that comes back to you. Sarah provided one web site that I'm > sure works fine, there are tons of others. A search for "my ip address?" will > give you lots of web sites that can display your real external IP address. > > If your software really needs to know the external IP address and you do not > want to rely upon web sites created by others that you have to parse, you can > build your own web site and hit it. That way you can be sure that the web page > always gives you back the data in a format you can parse. Otherwise, when your > chosen external web site alters its HTML response, your code will break. > > Kee Nethery > > > On Dec 13, 2010, at 8:07 PM, Terry Judd wrote: > >> Does anyone have a LC routine (or tips on how to write one) that will enable >> me to get a public IP address rather than the local one assigned by a >> router? >> >> Terry... >> >> -- >> Dr Terry Judd | Senior Lecturer in Medical Education >> Medical Education Unit >> Melbourne Medical School >> The University of Melbourne >> >> >> _______________________________________________ >> use-livecode mailing list >> use-livecode@lists.runrev.com >> Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription >> preferences: >> http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode > > > > > ------------------------------------------------- > I check email roughly 2 to 3 times per day. > Kagi main office: +1 (510) 550-1336 > > > > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode -- Dr Terry Judd | Senior Lecturer in Medical Education Medical Education Unit Melbourne Medical School The University of Melbourne _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
