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How can it give you your private IP address? I'm curious... Is there a javascript call to list the IP addresses of any machine? That feels very insecure to me.

by joss82 17y ago

How can it give you your private IP address? I'm curious... Is there a javascript call to list the IP addresses of any machine? That feels very insecure to me. EDIT: Sorry I forgot to turn on my joke detector.

jfr 17y ago
It probably gets it from the X-Forwarded-For HTTP reader inserted by his intranet proxy. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/X-Forwarded-For