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Rich Leyshon wrote:

which I suspect would be a circular process

Rich Leyshon wrote:

no sane human being could possibly read it all

if (sections.Length != freegeoipDataSectionsCount)
                        throw new ArgumentException("Data returned from FreeGeoIP has changed format!");

/// <summary>
/// Fill in the details for this instance
/// </summary>
/// <remarks>
/// This works by requesting data from whatismyipaddress.com, which returns the available info on an IP address
/// If none is supplied, the current address is used.
/// </remarks>
/// <param name="host"></param>
private void FillInDetails(string host)
    {
    Timestamp = DateTime.Now;
    IPAddress addr = IPAddress.None;
    try
        {
        if (string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(host))
            {
            host = "http://whatismyipaddress.com/";
            }
        HtmlWeb web = new HtmlWeb();
        HtmlDocument doc = web.Load(host);
        HtmlNode node = doc.DocumentNode.SelectSingleNode(@"//span[@class='address'][@id='ipv4']");
        if (node != null)
            {
            addr = IPAddress.Parse(node.InnerText);
            HtmlNodeCollection info = doc.DocumentNode.SelectNodes(@"//p[@class='information']");
            ISP = info[0].ChildNodes[2].InnerText;
            City = info[1].ChildNodes[2].InnerText;
            Region = info[2].ChildNodes[2].InnerText;
            Country = info[3].ChildNodes[2].InnerText;
            }
        }
    catch (Exception ex)
        {
        // Ignore errors (it probably means the router is down...)
        Debug.WriteLine(ex.Message);
        addr = IPAddress.None;
        }
    Address = addr;
    }

HtmlWeb web = new HtmlWeb();
HtmlDocument doc = web.Load(host);

pkfox wrote:

solve the CCC !!! I don't want to have to think of another one