On Sun, Mar 31, 2013 at 2:34 AM, Daniel Gandsjö <gand...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > I need to find out how I can get the exact coordinates of an IP address.. > I've looked at many forum and sites but that pages have only given me the > server address, I need to get the correct location. > I'm running a code on my localhost that I've copied to study a little, the > page I copied from are no longer running but it works on my localhost and > the thing is when I run the page easy called locateme.html then the browser > simply say "localhost:29XXX wants to use your computers location" I click > allow and get my computers exact location on the map. > > I just can't figure out how I can use this to get the location of any > other IP-address > > > If you had location-finding code that worked on your localhost, you are most likely referring to the HTML5 GeoLocation API: Example: http://www.w3schools.com/html/html5_geolocation.asp#gsc.tab=0 Documentation: http://dev.w3.org/geo/api/spec-source.html This works on all recent browsers, although depending on permission settings, the user may have to explicitly grant the webpage permission to use the GeoLocation service (for instance, I'm typing this on my iPad and it requires my permission before webpages get my location info). It should be noted that the HTML5 API works completely client-side; just javascript, no server side code whatsoever. On Tue, Apr 2, 2013 at 10:35 AM, Andrin von Rechenberg <and...@miumeet.com> wrote: > AppEngine adds some cool Geo IP headers to all requests from all clients. > Here is an example: If you don't want to use HTML5 Geolocation for whatever reason, AppEngine's GeoIP service is a good alternative. It should be noted that it's a separate and distinct from the HTML5 service though. See documentation here: https://developers.google.com/appengine/docs/python/runtime#Request_Headers ----------------- -Vinny P Technology & Media Advisor Chicago, IL @GOV on AppDotNet: https://alpha.app.net/gov -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Google App Engine" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to google-appengine+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. To post to this group, send email to google-appengine@googlegroups.com. Visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/google-appengine?hl=en. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
