Why No Built in GetMyIP call in LiveCode?

[Nonsanity]

Neither of the solutions given so far in this thread have worked for my on
my office PC. I just get my LAN 192.168.x.x number. Here's what I use. They
do rely on outside entities, but they are both pretty stable sites that have
lasted a good long time...

[whatismyip.org]
put url "http://www.whatismyip.org" into myExIP

[dyndns.org]
put url "http://checkip.dyndns.org" into resp
set itemdel to ":"
put word 1 to -1 of item 2 of resp into resp
set itemdel to "<"
put item 1 of resp into myExIP


 ~ Chris Innanen
 ~ Nonsanity


On Fri, Jun 10, 2011 at 1:05 PM, John Patten <johnpatten at mac.com> wrote:

> Hi All...
>
> I've been looking at all the solutions in the archive for getting the IP
> address of the machine running a stack. Some shell scripts, some php calls,
> etc. etc.
>
> I have a situation where we are behind a firewall using NAT. So all our
> computers are running a 10.x.x.x.x address. I'm trying to implement some
> socket communication between stacks and IP address information is essential
> for this to work. I would like the communication process set up to be as
> transparent as possible, allowing users to connect by name and maybe holding
> IP address is a custom property for example.
>
> The Dictionary provides some examples for hostAdress function and I tried
> (wishful thinking, script trickery) something like this:
>
> on mouseUp
>   open socket to "127.0.0.1:5005" with message "socketOpen"
>   put the result
> end mouseUp
>
> on socketOpen theSock
>   put the hostAddress of "127.0.0.1:5005"
> end socketOpen
>
> ...but it just gave me 127.0.0.1 and not the 10.x.x.x. address...
>
>
> Shell script works nice, but it gives quite a few IP in its result. Plus
> the actual machine IP is located on different lines in the result, such as
> in a desktop machine, as opposed to a laptop on wireless.
>
> It just seems like it would be nice to have a built in function for
> reporting local machine's IP...
>
> Such as, "put localIP of current stack into tIP"  or "get LocalIP of
> current stack."
>
> Is this available in the dictionary and I'm just missing it?
>
> Thank you!
>
> John Patten
> SUSD
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