On Tue, Feb 8, 2011 at 8:43 PM, Paul Dupuis <p...@researchware.com> wrote: > 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/
Hello Paul, If you have access to a reliable web server that will run PHP, then you can use this code: <?php if (getenv(HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR)) { $pipaddress = getenv(HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR); $ipaddress = getenv(REMOTE_ADDR); echo "Your Proxy IPaddress is : ".$pipaddress. "(via $ipaddress)" ; } else { $ipaddress = getenv(REMOTE_ADDR); echo "$ipaddress"; } ?> Name it something like "get_ip.php" and drop it in the folder location of your choice, then use livecode to parse the results: on mouseUp get URL "http://www.mydomain.com/foldername/get_ip.php" put it into tIPaddy answer tIPaddy end mouseUp That will work in a pinch, I believe. Best regards, David C. _______________________________________________ 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