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/// <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

OriginalGriff wrote:

Using IP based Geolocation - and why it's pretty much useless.[^]

dandy72 wrote:

They collect so much information about you, yet make fundamental mistakes

W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote:

Are you really so sure they don't have better location information than that - possibly from the ISP

W∴ Balboos, GHB wrote:

I'm actually somewhat difficult to find on the internet

dandy72 wrote:

apparently if you're not on Facebook or Twitter or LinkedIn, you might as well not exist.

OriginalGriff wrote:

Either that or it spells a lot of extra (hopefully chargeable) support work come our way when the users hear about it ...