objective c - Accessing IP Address with NSHost

Question

I am trying to get the IP Address using NSHost. With the NSHost object I can use the addresses method to access an array of objects one of which is the IP Address. I fear though that the IP Address may change position in the array from one machine to the other. Is there a way to access this information in a universal way?

There was an attempt to answer this question in a previous post, but as you can see it falls short.

IP Address? - Cocoa

Here is my code:

+(NSString *) ipAddress {
    NSHost * h = [[[NSHost currentHost] addresses] objectAtIndex:1];
    return h ;  
}

Answer 1

The only thing I can think of is to use something like "http://www.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/check_ip.cgi" others may have a better way.

This is an example,(i.e a quick cobbled together code)

NSUInteger  an_Integer;
NSArray * ipItemsArray;
NSString *externalIP;

NSURL *iPURL = [NSURL URLWithString:@"http://www.dyndns.org/cgi-bin/check_ip.cgi"];

if (iPURL) {
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSString *theIpHtml = [NSString stringWithContentsOfURL:iPURL 
                                                  encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding 
                                                     error:&error];
    if (!error) {
                NSScanner *theScanner;
        NSString *text = nil;

        theScanner = [NSScanner scannerWithString:theIpHtml];

        while ([theScanner isAtEnd] == NO) {

                // find start of tag
            [theScanner scanUpToString:@"<" intoString:NULL] ; 

                // find end of tag
            [theScanner scanUpToString:@">" intoString:&text] ;

                // replace the found tag with a space
                //(you can filter multi-spaces out later if you wish)
            theIpHtml = [theIpHtml stringByReplacingOccurrencesOfString:
                    [ NSString stringWithFormat:@"%@>", text]
                                                   withString:@" "] ;
            ipItemsArray =[theIpHtml  componentsSeparatedByString:@" "];
            an_Integer=[ipItemsArray indexOfObject:@"Address:"];

                externalIP =[ipItemsArray objectAtIndex:  ++an_Integer];



        } 


            NSLog(@"%@",externalIP);
    } else {
        NSLog(@"Oops... g %d, %@", 
              [error code], 
              [error localizedDescription]);
    }
}




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