In my program a user enters a url string, say
http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/~hawkeng//fall01/graphics/potato.gif
how would I get the IP address of this url? I tried using
InetAddress address = InetAddress.getByName(urlStr);
but the result always comes back null. What is the proper way to get the IP address?
Try this:
InetAddress address = InetAddress.getByName(new URL(urlString).getHost());
To get the raw IP:
String ip = address.getHostAddress();
You need to give hostname
to getByName() method and it returns
the IP address of a host, given the host's name.
URL url = new URL("http://www.engineering.uiowa.edu/~hawkeng//fall01/graphics/potato.gif");
System.out.println(url.getHost());
InetAddress address = InetAddress.getByName(url.getHost());
System.out.println(address.toString());
Output = www.engineering.uiowa.edu/128.255.17.182
To get the IP address
String temp = address.toString();
String IP = temp.substring(temp.indexOf("/")+1,temp.length());