For you minimalists: http://checkip.dyndns.org/

webignition · on Jan 27, 2010

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.

kordless · on Jan 27, 2010

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

ip=208.128.7.7

weavejester · on Jan 27, 2010

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

kordless · on Jan 27, 2010

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.

tfh · on Jan 27, 2010

"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

sant0sk1 · on Jan 27, 2010

plaintext ftw: http://my-ip.heroku.com