C++

Find My External Public IP Address

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To find your external public IP address (not your LAN IP address, such as 192.168.1.* or 172.16.16.*, etc), your application would need to send a request to an HTTP server that can report back on the origin IP address. You can easily write a simple script on your own web server to do it, or you can use a service such as ipify.org.

This example shows how to send a request to the ipify.org endpoint to get your public IP address.

C++

#include <CkHttp.h>

void ChilkatSample(void)
    {
    CkHttp http;
    const char *my_ip_address = http.quickGetStr("https://api.ipify.org");
    if (http.get_LastMethodSuccess() == false) {
        std::cout << http.lastErrorText() << "\r\n";
        return;
    }

    std::cout << "My Public IP Address: " << my_ip_address << "\r\n";
    }