Tuesday, April 01, 2008

SOAP interface updates

Previous showmyip.wsdl at http://www.showmyip.com/soap/server.php has now been replaced by callshowmyip.wsdl at http://www.showmyip.com/soap2008/server.php. This SOAP service can be used to detect your public IP Address, and to determine what properties any web site you visit presumes about you.

Previous SOAP showmyip_lookup.wsdl at http://www.showmyip.com/soap/lookupserver.php has been replaced by callshowmyip_lookup.wsdl at http://www.showmyip.com/soap2008/lookupserver.php. This SOAP service can be used to learn the properties of any IP Address or host/domain name. As a web site operator, for example, you can first get the IP Address of a visitor to your web site, then pass that IP Address over our SOAP interface to us to learn their host/domain name, their Country, Nationality, Currency, Latitude and Longitude, Tor network status, RBL/DNSBL status, and more. If you are a subscriber to our service (starting at $20 USD for 20,000 lookups) you can learn the State, City, ISP and Owning Organization of your visitor.

Subscribers would use ippages.com instead of showmyip.com of course, since this domain is available for them to get more consistent, faster responses.

TOR_DETECTION and RBL_DNSBL_STATUS are 2 new properties returned by each of these services. Tor Detection provides real-time and near real-time detection data on whether an IP Address is part of the Tor network. (see https://www.torproject.org/ for more details).

RBL/DNSBL status provides real-time and near real-time data on whether an IP Address is listed on the spamhaus.org, sorbs.net, uceprotect.net and/or other blacklists or blocklists.

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