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		weavejester on Jan 27, 2010 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Whats-My-IP-Service without all this crap 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

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