Getting ip from specific URL

Question

I'm trying to get the IP address of a specific url using:

var ip = Dns.GetHostAddresses("http://oldschool.runescape.com/game?world=321")[0];

The problem is that this function only seems to work with the normal host adress (as the function tells, ex: www.runescape.com) which creates an exception when using this specific more deeper URL. Is there any function to get the IP of a more specific URL?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

The full url like that will have the same hostname. As easy way to get the hostname is this:

var url = "http://oldschool.runescape.com/game?world=321";
Uri myUri = new Uri(url);
var ip = Dns.GetHostAddresses(myUri.Host)[0];

Simply extract the host out of the url and that should prevent your error giving you the correct Ip address of the host.