i hav been programing java for a couple of months and now i need som help below applet program yeilds 2 different results when executed in net beans and when embeded in a html page when executed in net beans it shows the correct result (the correct IP addres of the system) when embeded in html it shows a different result(som other address and not the actual IP address) can u tel me why i want to get the correct IP adress from the HTML(to continue with my work) this is the code Code: import java.awt.*; import java.net.*; import javax.swing.*; public class NewEmpty extends JApplet { public void start() { try { InetAddress thisIp =InetAddress.getLocalHost(); JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "1The IP ADDRESS is " + thisIp, "IP ADDRESS",JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE ); JOptionPane.showMessageDialog(null, "2The IP ADDRESS is " + thisIp.getHostAddress(), "IP ADDRESS",JOptionPane.PLAIN_MESSAGE ); } catch(Exception e) { e.printStackTrace(); } } public void paint(Graphics g) { g.setColor(Color.BLUE); g.fillRect(20, 20, 50, 30); g.setColor(Color.RED); g.fillRect(50, 30, 50, 30); g.drawString( " IP ADDRESS GETTER" , 70 , 30 ); } }