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Vicky S
Vicky S

Reputation: 832

Get Client Local IPAddress through Javascript

We are in a situation to get client Local IP (not global ip) to be retrieved through ASP.Net Application.

We found that it is not possible to get this through server, so we had tried to achieve this with

$(document).ready(function () {
    $.get('http://jsonip.com', function (res) {
        $('p').html('IP Address is: ' + res.ip);
    });
});

but we are getting Global IP, we need local ip address, can anyone help us with a solution, thanks in advance.

Upvotes: 0

Views: 2400

Answers (1)

Roshan Patil
Roshan Patil

Reputation: 196

In HTML5 it turns out, the recent WebRTC extension of HTML5 allows javascript to query the local client IP address. A proof of concept is available in below snippet

// NOTE: window.RTCPeerConnection is "not a constructor" in FF22/23
var RTCPeerConnection = /*window.RTCPeerConnection ||*/ window.webkitRTCPeerConnection || window.mozRTCPeerConnection;

if (RTCPeerConnection) (function () {
    var rtc = new RTCPeerConnection({iceServers:[]});
    if (1 || window.mozRTCPeerConnection) {      // FF [and now Chrome!] needs a channel/stream to proceed
        rtc.createDataChannel('', {reliable:false});
    };
    
    rtc.onicecandidate = function (evt) {
        // convert the candidate to SDP so we can run it through our general parser
        // see https://twitter.com/lancestout/status/525796175425720320 for details
        if (evt.candidate) grepSDP("a="+evt.candidate.candidate);
    };
    rtc.createOffer(function (offerDesc) {
        grepSDP(offerDesc.sdp);
        rtc.setLocalDescription(offerDesc);
    }, function (e) { console.warn("offer failed", e); });
    
    
    var addrs = Object.create(null);
    addrs["0.0.0.0"] = false;
    function updateDisplay(newAddr) {
        if (newAddr in addrs) return;
        else addrs[newAddr] = true;
        var displayAddrs = Object.keys(addrs).filter(function (k) { return addrs[k]; });
        document.getElementById('list').textContent = displayAddrs.join(" or perhaps ") || "n/a";
    }
    
    function grepSDP(sdp) {
        var hosts = [];
        sdp.split('\r\n').forEach(function (line) { // c.f. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4566#page-39
            if (~line.indexOf("a=candidate")) {     // http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4566#section-5.13
                var parts = line.split(' '),        // http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc5245#section-15.1
                    addr = parts[4],
                    type = parts[7];
                if (type === 'host') updateDisplay(addr);
            } else if (~line.indexOf("c=")) {       // http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc4566#section-5.7
                var parts = line.split(' '),
                    addr = parts[2];
                updateDisplay(addr);
            }
        });
    }
})(); else {
    document.getElementById('list').innerHTML = "<code>ifconfig | grep inet | grep -v inet6 | cut -d\" \" -f2 | tail -n1</code>";
    document.getElementById('list').nextSibling.textContent = "In Chrome and Firefox your IP should display automatically, by the power of WebRTCskull.";
}
Your network IP is: <h1 id=list>-</h1>

Upvotes: 1

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