checking for localhot

[pas2gether]

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]

What Operating System are you using?

[pas2gether]

Windows

[alexgeek]

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

[pas2gether]

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]

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".