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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by joss82 on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @11:25AM (#1080822)
How can it give you your private IP address? I'm curious...

Is there a javascript call to list the IP addresses of any machine? That feels very insecure to me.

EDIT: Sorry I forgot to turn on my joke detector.

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Re:Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap by jfr on Wednesday January 27, 2010 @11:47AM (#1080881)
It probably gets it from the X-Forwarded-For HTTP reader inserted by his intranet proxy.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For

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