How to get IP address from Webbrowser Control Windows Forms

Question

Anyone know how to do this? Can it be done?

Answer 1

Why use Web browser control (Dont know if it can be done) when you can get IP address using

IPHostEntry ip = default(IPHostEntry);
ip = Dns.GetHostByName(Dns.GetHostName);

Answer 2

As Shoban suggests, if you're looking for the IP of the local machine, there's no need to use the browser control. I'd prefer the below to get the IP, though; GetHostByName is marked as obsolete.

IPHostEntry entry = Dns.GetHostEntry(Dns.GetHostName());
foreach (IPAddress ip in entry.AddressList)
{
    Console.WriteLine(ip);
}

You can and often will see multiple IPs for the same host.

If you're looking for the IP of the machine you've navigated to in a WebBrowser control, grab the URL from the Url property of the control, and do the same thing:

Uri url = new Uri(browser.Url);
IPHostEntry entry = Dns.GetHostEntry(url.Host);
foreach (IPAddress ip in entry.AddressList)
{
    Console.WriteLine(ip);
}

EDIT: Proximo indicates that he's looking for his computer's external IP address. The site WhatIsMyIp (thanks to Brian for the reference) presents the IP as the only returned content; nothing simpler to scrape:

WebClient wc = new WebClient();
string ip = wc.DownloadString("http://www.whatismyip.org/");
Console.WriteLine(ip);

Be kind to the site, and respect any usage restrictions they impose.

Answer 3

Hey, This is me actually. I try your method and it works but I am trying to get the IP address of a proxy that I am using. This method doesn't show the proxy IP address.