How to get name of Wi-Fi connection

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Hi there,

I am using some code (jupyter notebook) on one machine but at two places (at home and at work). At work internet connection is behind proxy. When I set right proxy to HTTP.get function it is working just fine. But I would like to automatically find out whenever I am at work ot at home.
Without setting proxy it is not working (is there way to automatically findou out whenever to use system proxy?).

I found a can get IP address via:
using Sockets
getipaddrs()

But IP addreesses are often similar and it is not possible to distinguish work and home.
Is there any tricky how to do that? Is there a way to get somehow name of the internet connection (name of the Wifi)?

Thank you
Lubo

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this seems not relevant to Web Stack or even Julia at all tbh.

maybe try using

julia> gethostname()

?

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This is OS specific. Search for wifi SSID and your OS and it will likely tell you a program to run. You can run that program from Julia Running External Programs · The Julia Language. You may need to call an OS specific API function. In that case, Calling C and Fortran Code · The Julia Language is your friend.

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Thanks for direction. I found out this solution for Win10:

cmd_call = Netsh WLAN show interfaces
interface_info = read(cmd_call, String)
ssid_name = strip(split(filter(x → occursin(" SSID", x), split(interface_info, “\r\n”))[1], “:”)[2])