How to get external IP successfully

Question

After reading: Getting the 'external' IP address in Java

code:

public static void main(String[] args) throws IOException
{
    URL whatismyip         


        

Answer 1

Using the Check IP address link on AWS worked for me.Please note that MalformedURLException,IOException are to be added as well

public String getPublicIpAddress() throws MalformedURLException,IOException {

    URL connection = new URL("http://checkip.amazonaws.com/");
    URLConnection con = connection.openConnection();
    String str = null;
    BufferedReader reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(con.getInputStream()));
    str = reader.readLine();


    return str;
}