Subject: User's IP AT-code vs JS user.ip_address
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Hello there folks!
I have been working on modifying nolageek's syncWX weather app. (
https://gist.github.com/nolageek/4168edf17fae3f834e30)
I'm a pretty terrible programmer, but there's nothing like a fun project to get you working on stuff you never thought you would touch. However, I noticed something very odd while working with this app. There is an HTTP request for a JSON response that uses the caller's IP address to get their Geo Location. It works rather well. I load this as a Logon event, and then later it can be run as an External.
The problem is, that when running it at Logon, the user.ip_address appears to remember the LAST IP of the user. When you run it afterwards as an External, it looks fine. I happen to notice this because I ran it from my house in Pawtucket, RI and then at work... but my work has a VLAN back to a corporate firewall in Chesapeake, VA. So it was pretty obvious that it was remembering the last IP address.
I created something simple to test this, and created a door that displayed also at Logon that spit out the AT-Code for IP along side the user.ip_address.
The AT-Code is correct, the user.ip_address is remembering the last session. But, when I run it 5 seconds later as a door, these two methods of displaying the IP match.
~KenDB3
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