At home I do this with LWP on my Lynksys. Look at LWP::UserAgent and LWP::Simple for the fetching, and HTML::Parser for the HTML parsing (or just use a regular expression if you can).
Cheers, Kevin On Mon, Jun 10, 2002 at 10:35:59AM -0700, bob ackerman ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) said something similar to: > my box is behind a D-Link router 704. > The router gets its ip from my isp using dhcp. > anyone know how to get that external ip from the router? > is any module designed to find your external ip when you are on a lan? > router is admined from a web page, so i guess it is possible to using LWP > (or some other module?) to retrieve the info from the web page. -- [Writing CGI Applications with Perl - http://perlcgi-book.com] Share the groove. -- Phish (Weekapaug Groove) -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]