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by aiurtourist 4802 days ago
Forgive me, but what's so exciting about this?
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Most "what is my IP?" services either return it in hard-to-parse format, or they block curl.
Couldn't you roll your own with a few lines of Ruby and send it off to heroku?
I could also write my own version of /bin/cat, but that doesn't mean it's a good use of my time.