[Newbies] How you could get your public IP from Squeak

[Matthew Fulmer]

On Mon, Jun 25, 2007 at 07:36:28AM -0300, Edgar J. De Cleene wrote:
> My router is NOGA KN-S1060
> 
> | stream wanIp |
>     stream := HTTPSocket
>                 httpGet: 'http://192.168.1.1/sys_status.htm'
>                 args: nil
>                 user: 'admin'
>                 passwd: 'admin'.
>     stream upToAll: 'wanIP'.
>     wanIp := stream upTo: $;.
>     ^ wanIp := (wanIp findTokens: '"') at: 2
> 
> And I have a Mac , a Windows PC and a Linux box on my small LAN
> 
> Perhaps this could be useful to some

Here is a variation that uses the public service dyndns:

getPublicIP
| stream |
    stream := HTTPSocket httpGet: 'http://checkip.dyndns.com'.
    stream upToAll: 'IP Address: '.
    ^ stream upTo: $<

That page is tiny, and so is pretty quick to download and parse.

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