🚀 go-pugleaf

Here's another fun question to look at. The goal, of course, is to get
the IP address of the computer on which the Java application or applet
is running on. From what I can tell, there is nothing in the API showing
a simple way to get the local address.

My initial thought was to create a dummy ServerSocket or DatagramSocket
instance and trick it into returning an address. I know that once you
have a socket connection, you can get both the local & host IP address.
So I was hoping that simply creating the instance would let you access
those methods. Unfortunately, my hopes were false.

Right now, my thinking is to create a socket connection to yourself. The
ugly part is where the net commands block until a connection is actually
made. That means you need two threads to connect to each other or you
will never get an answer. The other problem is attempting to make this
into a static method where you can access it from anywhere -- as far as
I can tell, you can't create threads from a static method.

So chime in with the ideas...