__________ Help __________ 01. The GMT date & time your ip address was detected and printed into the My-i-p.com webpage. 02. This series of numbers is your computer's current external or public¹ Internet Protocol (ip) address. Your ip address will either be static (same address everytime) or dynamic (address changes frequently). Proxy users, the proxy server's ip address and hostname will be displayed. __________ ¹Your internal or private ip address in Windows® operating systems can be viewed by: | a. from your taskbar click "Start" | b. from Start's menu select "Run" | c. type "cmd" into Run's text box and click "OK" | d. after the command-line box appears type "ipconfig/all" and press your "Enter" key. | Your internal ip address will now be displayed within the command-line box along with the computer's hostname, MAC address, subnet mask, default gateway, etc. | 03. The Hostname is a Reverse DNS Lookup of your displayed ip address. 04. The current port used by your computer to communicate with the My-i-p.com webserver. 05. The user-agent is a text string of information sent by your computer to the webserver identifying your computer's particular needs in the server's reply. 06. The country from which your ip address originated. 07. HTTP referer is the address of the internet resource or webpage that linked you to the My-i-p.com website. 08. Proxy users, view the content of your HTTP_VIA and HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR headers. Your real, internal or a false (spoofed) ip address might be displayed in the latter. View an example of these headers in action by visiting the Google Wireless Transcoder, enter My-i-p.com into the url text box and click "Go". Your browser will return to My-i-p.com via the Google Wireless Transcoder (transcoding proxy) producing displayed content for both headers. 09. View what happens if your ip address or hostname is requested over the internet. Most ip addresses will display a log-on request. 10. Did you know your ip address and/or hostname can be recorded by various websites during internet surfing? Recorded ip addresses are often made public from online server statistics and message board posts. Eventually search engines such as Google™ will find and crawl these websites indexing the webpage content including your ip address and/or hostname.
Display Visitor's IP Address - PHP Required
Webmasters, if your website is on a PHP enabled server you may display your visitor's ip address information using the php code snippets below.
Copy & paste an ip address and/or hostname script directly into your webpage's html code. The visitor's ip address and/or hostname will display as text.
The php code snippet below will display your visitors ip address e.g. 38.103.63.16
The php code snippet below will display your visitors hostname e.g. 38.103.63.16
Display Visitor's IP Address - No PHP Required
Webmasters, you can place a free ip-image on your website to provide your visitors the ability of viewing their current ip address.
Select an ip-image script from below and paste it into your webpage's html code. No php enabled server or php skills needed!
The only system requirement is that your webpage will display a gif image. The small ip-image can be placed anywhere, even within your text.
Example ip-image use: ...to configure the internet device, please type your current ip address into the text box and click... CAUTION: Do not use width/height attributes in ip-image code because image size will vary with length of ip address.
ip-image style "wb" html code below. (1px top and bottom edge margins.)
ip-image style "wb-nm" html code below. (No top or bottom edge margins for better text alignment.)
ip-image style "by" html code below. (1px top and bottom edge margins.)
ip-image style "by-nm" html code below. (No top or bottom edge margins for better text alignment.)
ip-image style "bw" html code below. (1px top and bottom edge margins.)
ip-image style "bw-nm" html code below. (No top or bottom edge margins for better text alignment.)
Simple IP Address Logger - PHP Required
Webmasters, below is a php code generator to produce a simple text logger for recording the ip address information of visitors accessing a webpage.
The log's text will contain your selected ip information such as the date, time and visitor's ip address e.g. 05-10-08@01:43:15GMT - 38.103.63.16
Select your desired configuration, click "Generate Logger" and paste the generated php script into the end of your webpage's html code.
This code will not display the ip address on the webpage and to display the ip address add an echo code from above into your webpage's html code.
__________ Help __________
01.To write your log file into a specific folder enter the folder's name e.g. mylogs and be sure to create the folder on your website e.g. example.com/mylogs Otherwise, do not enter anything into this text field and your logger's .txt file will be created within the folder containing the webpage.
02.Enter your logger's name here and make it unique for log file privacy e.g. iplog34F63
03.Enter a name for identifying which webpage the log file will belong too e.g. index, admin, page01, page02, etc. Using the Page Name feature will allow logging of multiple webpages within the same website by giving each webpage it's own unique log file name.
04.Select this radio button for a log file that will be automatically created once and then continuously wrote into. When the log file has grown too large (3mb) save the log file to your desktop and then delete the old log file from your server. A new log file will be automatically created during the next pageload.
05.Select this radio button for a new log file to be automatically created every month, eliminating the worry of an excessive log file size.
06.Select this radio button for a new log file to be automatically created every day, eliminating the worry of an excessive log file size.
Simple IP Address Blocker - PHP Required
Webmasters, below is a simple php script to block (and redirect) unwanted ip addresses from accessing a webpage or webpages.
Paste the ip blocker script into the top of your webpage's html code and change the default redirect (http://google.com/) to a website of your choice.
Create the text file banned-ip-list.txt and place each banned ip address on a new line. Upload the .txt file into the directory containing the webpage.
Simple IP Address Blocker
"Country Blocker" will easily ban an entire country from accessing your website's webpages: country-blocker.zip
Change of IP Address History
IP History will record and display the last 10 ip address changes which occurred during your use of the My-i-p.com website.
Cookies must be enabled for ip history to function because the ip change record is stored on your computer using a browser cookie.
Proxy ip address changes are unlikely to be recorded since most proxy servers block all cookies from the user's browser.