Max MSP via internet

i created an mxj object named myPublicIp which helps to give you your public IP address necessary for communication over the net. The objects gets the content of a particular website that displays your external IP address.

import com.cycling74.max.*;
import java.io.*;
import java.net.*;

public class myPublicIp extends MaxObject {

    private class publicIpGetter extends Thread implements Executable {
     String theLine = "test";

    public void run(){

         try {
         URL u = new URL("http://myip.dk/");
         int port = 80;
         Socket s = new Socket(u.getHost(), port);
         OutputStream theOutput = s.getOutputStream();
         PrintWriter pw = new PrintWriter(theOutput, true);
//         System.out.println(u.getFile());
         pw.println("GET " + u.getFile() + " HTTP/1.1");
         pw.println("Host: myip.dk");
         pw.println("Connection: Close");
         pw.println();
//         read the response
         BufferedReader in = new BufferedReader(
                 new InputStreamReader( s.getInputStream() ));
         boolean loop = true;
//         StringBuffer sb = new StringBuffer(8096);

         while (loop) {
         if ( in.ready() ) {
//         int i=0;

         while ((theLine = in.readLine()) != null) {
              theLine =in.readLine();
                  outlet(0,theLine);
//                  System.out.println("cr");
         }
         loop = false;
         }
//         Thread.currentThread().sleep(50);
         }

//         display the response to the out console
//         outlet(0, sb.toString());
         s.close();
        MaxQelem q = new MaxQelem(this);
        q.set();
        }
        catch (MalformedURLException e) {
         post("http://www.myip.dk" + " is not a valid URL");
        }
        catch (IOException e) {
//         post(e);
        }
}

    public void execute() {
//    outlet(0, theLine);
//    outlet(0, "test");

    }
    }

    private static final String[] INLET_ASSIST = new String[]{
        "inlet 1 help"
    };
    private static final String[] OUTLET_ASSIST = new String[]{
        "outlet 1 help"
    };

    public myPublicIp(Atom[] args)
    {
        declareInlets(new int[]{DataTypes.ALL});
        declareOutlets(new int[]{DataTypes.ALL});

        setInletAssist(INLET_ASSIST);
        setOutletAssist(OUTLET_ASSIST);

    }

    public void bang()
    {
        publicIpGetter pig = new publicIpGetter();
        pig.start();
    }

    public void inlet(int i)
    {
    }

    public void inlet(float f)
    {
    }

    public void list(Atom[] list)
    {
    }

}

Compile the code and use the object inside the following abstraction which does post-processing of the html code. The output will be your external IP address:

I hope this helps,

Georg