Hi Paul, You can use this: put URL "http://www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp"; into tMyPublicIP put tMyPublicIP into fld "IP"
greetings, William 2011/2/9 Paul Dupuis <p...@researchware.com> > > I am looking for ideas/suggestion on how, in live code, to obtain the public > IP address of the computer a LiveCode standalone is running on. > > hostName() returns the name of the computer. > hostNameToAddress(hostName()) return the IP address, such as 192.168.1.104, > but (as in this case) if the system is behind a NAT device, like a typical > internet router, all you get a is local address > DNSservers() can get you the IPs of the computers DNS servers > > I can find no function to get the gateway address - i.e. the address of the > router the computer is connected to. > > Is the only approach to go after the real IP is to do so through a shell > command? Or is there some clever LiveCode function I am missing? > > -- > > Paul Dupuis > Cofounder > Researchware, Inc. > http://www.researchware.com/ > > > _______________________________________________ > 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 _______________________________________________ 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
