Lua

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.

Lua

local chilkat = require("chilkat")

local http = chilkat.Http.new()
local my_ip_address = http:quick_get_str("https://api.ipify.org")
if not http.last_method_success then
    print(http.last_error_text)
    return
end

print("My Public IP Address: " .. my_ip_address)