How Does the GMod Web Browser Work & How to Print IP

[ArkTechSoarin]

Hello! I was wondering, how could I make a lua script that prints out the IP of a web page that the user is trying to load with html.OpenURL(). I've got a problem that I don't understand and nobody else really does, MoTDs won't load local web servers on HTTPS.
However, everything loads fine for everybody outside of the MOTD, I suspect the server grabs the IP of the website and then sends the client that info to open it, but I need a way to verify.

Because if that's how it works, then I could setup my firewall to work with that and give out proper IPs.
Here's a more detailed post on my issues and all the struggles & troubleshooting I've went through
How Do MoTDs Capture Websites?

Summary:

>Only seems to effect MOTDS
>Can't load any websites that is ran on my network through the external IP on an HTTPS connection
>It loads just fine, the same site, on HTTP
>If you open the same site in HTTPS in the Steam Browser, it loads just fine.
>Loading screens work fine on HTTPS from the same web server & domain
>Doesn't worn for ULX, NovusMOTD, or FancyMOTD
>Everything suddenly works fine if it's routed via Cloudflare proxy
>Seems like a NAT Reflection problem but clients fetch the HTML themselves, not the server?

Thank you!

[Kevlon]

The current version of gmod uses an outdated version of Awesomium while the Chromium branch uses Chromium.

The chromium branch will probably not be live any time soon

[Jcw87]

My guess is that it's a security feature to stop servers from attempting to do something nasty like changing your router settings. Of course, if other in-game methods can load the page just fine, then it really isn't securing a damn thing.

[ArkTechSoarin]

I'm trying to see what IP the web browser is trying to load ingame so I can try to find out why people's pages won't load if they're hosted on my web server on a GMod server hosted on my network. It only seems to happen to HTTPS, it's incredibly confusing.

Panel/OpenURL
I looked around on the wiki for a function that might be able to do that but I came short, I don't understand Lua too well.

My suspsicion originally was they're getting an RFC1918 IP like the webserver's 192.169.169.1 but if that were the case then I assume I should be able to see it, except I don't think the GMod web browser loads pages that don't have a valid SSL and if it tries to contact web pages with incorrect IPs then the SSL won't work.
That's all provided if it's an IP issue, which is what I want to find out. Thank you for the response, apologies for taking so long to respond.