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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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