Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap

Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by webignition on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @11:02AM (#1080751)

The full response of which being:

<html><head><title>Current IP Check</title></head><body>Current IP Address: xx.xx.xx.xx</body></html>

That's surely not minimal. What you need is a simple plain-text: xx.xx.xx.xx.

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by kordless on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @11:13AM (#1080774)

or even better, an easy-to-parse key value pair:

ip=208.128.7.7

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by weavejester on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @11:17AM (#1080791)

I'd contend that "208.128.7.7" is a more minimal, and useful, return value than "ip=208.128.7.7".

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by tfh on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @11:37AM (#1080854)

"ip=208.128.7.7" would be actually nice if the output would be like:

  ip=208.128.7.7
  location=france
  ua=Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel blah blah

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by kordless on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @12:03PM (#1080929)

Yes, I agree, especially for shell scripts and such. A service should give me 1) plain text, 2) key value pairs, 3) json, and 4) human readable/copyable output.

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