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--- system:myip_help [2024-09-21T08:44:25+0000] – +ssh myconnection/SSH_CONNECTION michael_paoli_admin
+++ system:myip_help [2024-09-25T12:45:18+0000] (current) – michael_paoli_admin
@@ Line 3: / Line 3: @@
 ===== http/https =====
 https/http URLs for the services:\\
-http or https may be use with their respective default ports 80 and 443,\\
+http or https may be used with their respective default ports 80 and 443,\\
 domain names that may be used:\\
   * %%www.balug.org%% (dual stack: this service available via IPv4 and IPv6)\\
@@ Line 9: / Line 9: @@
   * %%www.ipv6.balug.org%% (this service available only via IPv6)\\
 Note that in the above, if the www. prefix is omitted, will HTTP redirect to include the www. prefix.\\
-Path portion of URL/URI:\\
+^Path portion of URL^notes                                                                                                            ^
-/myip\\
+|/myip              |give IP address of client as seen from The Internet                                                              |
-/srcip may alternatively be used, but it may not be canonical, and may go away in future\\
+|/srcip             |not canonical and may go away in future, otherwise does like the above                                           |
+|/myconnection      |outputs line contains additional information as described under [[#myconnection|myconnection]] under [[#ssh|ssh]]|
 So, e.g:\\
 [[https://www.balug.org/myip]] [[http://www.balug.org/myip]]\\
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 There is no password and password is neither needed nor requested.\\
 No pseudo-terminal allocation will not occur, so may want to use -T option or equivalent option/setting.\\
-ssh fingerprints, see DNSSEC secured DNS SSHFP records, for many clients, may also be able to use, e.g.:\\
+For ssh fingerprints, see DNSSEC secured DNS SSHFP records, for many clients, may also be able to use, e.g.:\\
 ''ssh -T -o VerifyHostKeyDNS=yes myip@balug.org''\\
 One may also want to put suitable configuration options in ~/.ssh/config or equivalent, e.g.:\\
 <file>
-Host balug.org balug.org. *.balug.org *.balug.org.
+Host balug.org balug.org. ipv4.balug.org ipv4.balug.org. ipv6.balug.org ipv6.balug.org. www.balug.org www.balug.org. www.ipv4.balug.org www.ipv4.balug.org. www.ipv6.balug.org www.ipv6.balug.org.
 User myip
 RequestTTY no
 VerifyHostKeyDNS yes
 </file>
-so one can then conveniently do something like just: ''ssh balug.org''\\
+One can then conveniently do something like just: ''ssh balug.org''\\
-The command is forced, however one may give a single command matching exactly one of these:\\
+In all output cases, the output is terminated by a single newline character.
+==== myconnection ====
+One may give a single command matching exactly one of these:\\
   * myconnection
   * SSH_CONNECTION
 in which case the output is instead of just the first value from SSH_CONNECTION from the environment,\\
-the full content of the SSH_CONNECTION, which
+the full content of SSH_CONNECTION from the environment, which
 is described on [[https://manpages.debian.org/stable/openssh-client/ssh.1.en.html|ssh(1)]]:\\
 <file>
@@ Line 57: / Line 60: @@
 $
 </file>
-In any of these cases, the output is terminated by a single newline character.
+----
+----
+----
+----
+----
-====== concept/design/alpha/beta - not yet implemented in production ======
+====== concept/design/alpha/beta - NOT YET IMPLEMENTED in production ======
+Various URL query parameters that may be accepted.\\
+For [[#http_https|http/https]] URLs/interface as noted further above,\\
+with http or https, and one of those noted domains, and with path portion of /myip\\
+that path portion can be followed by query parameters.\\
+those start with an initial ? and then each subsequent parameter is separated from other by &\\
+E.g. one could use:\\
+/myip?list\\
+to get a list, or\\
+/myip?help\\
+to get help, or\\
+/myip?submit
+to submit an entry, etc.
 ===== list =====
-list is exclusive and takes no value(s)
+...
 ===== help =====
@@ Line 69: / Line 89: @@
 help is exclusive and takes no value(s)
+===== submit =====
+Lots of documentation still to be done here:\\
+submit URL, domain, or IP address\\
+notes\\
+protocol https http dns ssh telnet\\
+httpsport 443, httpport 80, dnsport 53, sshport 22, telnetport 23\\
+class IN, type TXT\\
+user