Hi, We've been working on some internationalised versions of our website, and implemented an IP lookup using GeoIP to suggest visitors use a more localised version of the site (e.g. goto www.1791diamonds.com.au whilst in NZ or vice versa at www.1791diamonds.co.nz). After doing some tax research, since our main despatch location is in NZ for the time being, looks like we might require more than just a suggested redirect, rather a forced redirect to ensure we invoice and charge the correct amount of GST and ship from the correct company.
Apart from the obvious accuracy issue of the IP database that's doing the auto-bouncing; is there any recommended approach to avoid auto-redirecting web spiders as well as human visitors? I assume it's against the rules to code spider-detection code into your sites, but we certainly don't want our NZ or AU sites to be bounced back to the US site whenever google comes spidering...? Yeh we could always just code logic into each international site to invoice and apply correct GST based on customer's destination vs despatch destination, but just trying to avoid an extra month of coding/testing/release to some core code. Any advice appreciated. Cheers, -Dan --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ NZ PHP Users Group: http://groups.google.com/group/nzphpug To post, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe, send email to [email protected] -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
