On Fri, Jun 24, 2011 at 10:02, Richard Stovall <[email protected]> wrote: > If you can get it to work, the beauty of whatismyip.org is that there is > absolutely no extraneous stuff to parse out and get rid of. As you've seen, > whatismyip.com has got all kinds of content that is probably dynamic, and > would be a pain to deal with.
Thoroughly agree. > In truth, I used to use checkip.dyndns.org and process the result to get rid > of the html tags and phrase "Current IP Address:" When I saw whatismyip.org > mentioned this morning I simplified the script to take advantage of the > ultra-lean nature of that site's output. Yeah, I don't want to deal with parsing through cruft to get the nugget - that's painful, and subject to more pain as the site changes. I mean, regexes are fun and all that, but if the target moves, you have to adjust your regex. Kurt ~ Finally, powerful endpoint security that ISN'T a resource hog! ~ ~ <http://www.sunbeltsoftware.com/Business/VIPRE-Enterprise/> ~ --- To manage subscriptions click here: http://lyris.sunbelt-software.com/read/my_forums/ or send an email to [email protected] with the body: unsubscribe ntsysadmin
