ip address

[el-Q]

Does anyone know how (or if it is possible) to get flash to return an ip address from a current user.

thanks in advance

[Strok]

You can pull the IP using javascript and just send that into your movie

var movie = window.document.movie;
var myAddress2 = java.net.InetAddress.getLocalHost();
var ip = myAddress2.getHostAddress();
movie.SetVariable("ip", ip);

Example:
http://www.sinisterwaltz.com/flash4/source/ipcapturenew.htm

[drZoode]

I have to add that this JavaScript method only works for Netscape browsers, not for Internet Explorer. Also in Netscape 6.0 it returns 127.0.0.1 (a loopback network connection).

[Strok]

Yes it is true
Author of the script told me , he'll fix it for IE and we'll have it on actionscripts.org as a tutorial

[Strok]

We have an email from the author:

http://www.sinisterwaltz.com/flash4/source/ipAndDate2.asp

[Raster]

Also that's .asp code. I saw that the original writter was looking Javascript. Just thought I would throw in my two cents.

Late

[drZoode]

If you want to use CGI here is a very simple example:

http://zoode-ds.hypermart.net/flash/zoodeExperiments/exp_ipCatcher.html

Source files are available. You can find it in the Experiments section.
http://zoode.cjb.net