checking for localhot

pas2gether · October 8th, 2007, 12:02 PM

A common problem I have when writing code is that I want ceratin code not to be executed when I am testing locally.

I am a vb.net developer.
Is there a way of checking whether that you are running locally or on a remote machine.

Thanks
Parm

alexgeek · October 8th, 2007, 12:15 PM

What Operating System are you using?

pas2gether · October 8th, 2007, 12:17 PM

Windows

alexgeek · October 8th, 2007, 08:22 PM

I will assume you mean XP. Have you installed IIS?

pas2gether · October 9th, 2007, 05:23 AM

I have windows xp. I have IIS installed locally.

When I upload it to the web server it does some authentication.

When I test it locally, I do not want it to do the authentication (since it is local). So what I need to do is make the code check whether it is running locally, and if so skip authentication and proceed with the rest of the app.

Please not: this is nbot a Q about authentication, its simply about detecting whether I am running locally, the authentication bit is simply one example of where it would be useful.

alexgeek · October 11th, 2007, 08:19 PM

I don't quite get how you wouldn't know whether you are checking locally or remotely.
If it's locally, it will either be your IP address or "http://localhost" otherwise it will be an external IP address or domain name "http://example.com".