Funny thing is, I was at another site and saw someone with this in thier sig. I didn't give it much notice at first, then I thought to myself, hey that is my IP showing in that banner! But everyone should only see thier own IP, not anyone elses. {} Treena
So wait a second.... Is the one I see in your post, Treena, MY ip? So it is different for everyone who sees your post? [EDIT] IT IS ME!!!! COOL!!!
Yes Take screenshots if you wish. But thatd be giving everyone your IP = not smart. Too bad it bombed on my browser, i dont use IE.
Funny thing is-- my computer is cool. It DOES say that my IP is at baylor.edu, but it gives the wrong one My firewall is virtually impenetrable.
I think the strangest thing is how it knows that my kung fu is better than your kung fu. Scary... Edit: Ok, it changes message every time...
When you connect to a website, your browser makes a request for the page and any associated content to be sent back to it. The protocol for doing this dictates passing a bunch of information including the IP address (or firewall), browser type and platform you are using. It's not rocket science to extract it - although putting it in the graphic using some server side magic is a neat idea. BTW, many websites are set up to not work if not viewed with IE because the designer hasn't checked them with anything else. To circumvent this other browsers, such as Opera, allow you to pretend to be using IE, thus giving the apparently erroneous result. FWIW, my setup - Firebird, running on Linux - is reported accurately Wulf
why is it a big deal for them to "know" you ip. You can just look it up on your pc in My network connections. I can't remember how to do it on a MAC. At www.whatismyip.com it didn't read mine which is probably good. I love firewalls.
If you are running OS X go to system preferences > network. Then select whichever method you are using to connect (ethernet, airoport, etc). click on the TCP/IP tab and it shows you your IP address. FWIW, I'm on my University's wireless network and it got my IP address right.
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