+/**
+ * \ingroup Util
+ * \brief Return the IP adress of the machine writting the DICOM image
+ */
+std::string Util::GetIPAddress()
+{
+ // This is a rip from http://www.codeguru.com/Cpp/I-N/internet/network/article.php/c3445/
+#ifndef HOST_NAME_MAX
+ // SUSv2 guarantees that `Host names are limited to 255 bytes'.
+ // POSIX 1003.1-2001 guarantees that `Host names (not including the
+ // terminating NUL) are limited to HOST_NAME_MAX bytes'.
+# define HOST_NAME_MAX 255
+ // In this case we should maybe check the string was not truncated.
+ // But I don't known how to check that...
+#if defined(_MSC_VER) || defined(__BORLANDC__)
+ // with WinSock DLL we need to initialise the WinSock before using gethostname
+ WORD wVersionRequested = MAKEWORD(1,0);
+ WSADATA WSAData;
+ int err = WSAStartup(wVersionRequested,&WSAData);
+ if (err != 0) {
+ /* Tell the user that we could not find a usable */
+ /* WinSock DLL. */
+ WSACleanup();
+ return "127.0.0.1";
+ }
+#endif
+
+#endif //HOST_NAME_MAX
+
+ std::string str;
+ char szHostName[HOST_NAME_MAX+1];
+ int r = gethostname(szHostName, HOST_NAME_MAX);
+
+ if( r == 0 )
+ {
+ // Get host adresses
+ struct hostent * pHost = gethostbyname(szHostName);
+
+ for( int i = 0; pHost!= NULL && pHost->h_addr_list[i]!= NULL; i++ )
+ {
+ for( int j = 0; j<pHost->h_length; j++ )
+ {
+ if( j > 0 ) str += ".";
+
+ str += Util::Format("%u",
+ (unsigned int)((unsigned char*)pHost->h_addr_list[i])[j]);
+ }
+ // str now contains one local IP address