leakedip

Description

This patch adds a new function - leaked_ip, which prints a public IP address that an Internet server sees when a user contacts it.

The function works by querying a third party service, namely ip-api.com, to return back the IP address seen in a query packet. It's different from builtin ipv4 and ipv6 functions, whose work is just showing IP addresses bound to a local interface, which often differs from the identity seen by the Internet.

Note also that by default ip-api.com limits the rate of queries to 45 by the time of writing the patch, so the variable interval probably should be adjusted accordingly.

CAUTION!!! Queries are sent unencrypted through HTTP protocol, because this service states that a user need to pay money for the benefit of SSL encryption.

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