Getting the WebHostName of the server

Classic Servoy
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Hi everybody,

In my web-client solution I’m trying to send a file to the user. To do that I just do a showURL() to the file which is in Tomcat’s ROOT directory.
But I can’t manage to get the Web Host Name of the server. I can get the local network IP address of the server, its local Hostname but not the Host name used for internet.

How can I get this address?

Cheers.

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You can’t, unless you store it yourself somewhere.

The Application Server cannot know how you expose the WebClient application to the outside world.

You can try to send a relative URL.

Paul

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Although you can’t get the hostname, it is possible to get the ip using an external site like this one:

In your code you can use the http plugin to get it, like this:

var _ip = plugins.http.getPageData("http://www.whatismyip.com/automation/n09230945.asp");
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Ok

Thank for your tips :D