Visual Basic 6.0

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.

Visual Basic 6.0

Dim http As New ChilkatHttp
Dim my_ip_address As String
my_ip_address = http.QuickGetStr("https://api.ipify.org")
If (http.LastMethodSuccess = 0) Then
    Debug.Print http.LastErrorText
    Exit Sub
End If

Debug.Print "My Public IP Address: " & my_ip_address