I need to get my external (public) IP address from Delphi.
The same IP that is shown by http://www.whatismyip.com for example.
How can I do that ? Winsock doesn’t allow this.
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I need to get my external (public) IP address from Delphi.
The same IP that is shown by http://www.whatismyip.com for example.
How can I do that ? Winsock doesn’t allow this.
I don’t think you can. Well, you could call some service that tells you what your IP address appears to be, ( ex: http://www.whatismyip.com/ ) and figure it out from the response. But I don’t think anything on your PC will be able to tell you what your IP address looks like, to the outside world.
Untested, but I think you can do this with Indy:
Please review the rules/policy at: http://www.whatismyip.com/faq/automation.asp before using this.