IpAddress IpAddress::GetPublicAddress(Time timeout)
{
// The trick here is more complicated, because the only way
// to get our public IP address is to get it from a distant computer.
// Here we get the web page from http://www.sfml-dev.org/ip-provider.php
// and parse the result to extract our IP address
// (not very hard: the web page contains only our IP address).
Http server("www.sfml-dev.org");
Http::Request request("/ip-provider.php", Http::Request::Get);
Http::Response page = server.SendRequest(request, timeout);
if (page.GetStatus() == Http::Response::Ok)
return IpAddress(page.GetBody());
// Something failed: return an invalid address
return IpAddress();
}
