Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Dale wrote: I ask because I have seen other sites that do something similar and they never seem to be correct for me. Maybe it is because I live out in the sticks. Heck, I'm still on dial-up but DSL is coming sometime soon. It's something called GeoIP. Look it up in wikipedia. Even the webalizer (apache statistics generator) package makes use of it. - -- Arturo Buanzo Busleiman - Consultor Independiente en Seguridad Informatica Servicios Ofrecidos: http://www.buanzo.com.ar/pro/ Unase a los Foros GNU/Buanzo - La palabra Comunidad en su maxima expresion. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHGHj5AlpOsGhXcE0RCi0xAJ9Y84cNKXdL7dcLp8C2UOZE0zNCkQCfUkB1 IQ3F4LykOYHZ/DdVcpqhoPU= =dEBz -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?
Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello everyone, Hello 8 I searched a bit on the Internet and found the BBC Radio Station [2]. I have one single technical problem with it: it's Available Online (UK Only). So, my questions: 8 I would imagine that this is IP based :-( -- Wayn0 -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?
Hello and thanks for answering, On 10/18/07, Wayn0 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would imagine that this is IP based :-( Is there a way to make my computer identify on the net with a different, tweaked IP address? Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:10:53 Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello everyone, Is there a way to make Opera or Firefox believe that I am located in the UK? I am using (on a regular basis) the following environment variables. LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 Nonetheless, it seems to make no difference to either browser. Maybe someone knows exactly how does BBC, or Google and other sites proposing their web pages in your local language, determine your location? For example, when accessing http://www.all-nettools.com/toolbox,net , it indicates me immediately and correctly from what country I am accessing the site. When I enter my IP address in the CountryWhois box, it is unable to identify my coordonates. I doubt anything about their verification happens from the browser, it would all be IP based. So bounce through a proxy in the UK. - Noven -- -- Novensiles divi Flamen -- Miles Militis Fons -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?
Hello, On 10/18/07, Novensiles divi Flamen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt anything about their verification happens from the browser, it would all be IP based. So bounce through a proxy in the UK. I am already required to connect to the Internet through a transparent proxy (educational environment). Is there any way to connect to BBC through an anonymous UK proxy on top? Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?
Hi! On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:40:53 +0200 Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to make Opera or Firefox believe that I am located in the UK? I am using (on a regular basis) the following environment variables. LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 Nonetheless, it seems to make no difference to either browser. Maybe someone knows exactly how does BBC, or Google and other sites proposing their web pages in your local language, determine your location? It's determined based on your IP address. You can try it yourself at http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_my_ip and http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_ip . This service locates not only the country, but also the city. If you want to have an IP address in UK you will have to use a proxy in UK. You can find a list of proxies at http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/ You could also find another TV channel with live video and audio stream. There is a list of TV stations at http://wwitv.com/ Cheers, Renat -- Probleme kann man niemals mit derselben Denkweise loesen, durch die sie entstanden sind. (Einstein) signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?
Renat Golubchyk wrote: Hi! On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 09:40:53 +0200 Liviu Andronic [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Is there a way to make Opera or Firefox believe that I am located in the UK? I am using (on a regular basis) the following environment variables. LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 Nonetheless, it seems to make no difference to either browser. Maybe someone knows exactly how does BBC, or Google and other sites proposing their web pages in your local language, determine your location? It's determined based on your IP address. You can try it yourself at http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_my_ip and http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_ip . This service locates not only the country, but also the city. If you want to have an IP address in UK you will have to use a proxy in UK. You can find a list of proxies at http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/ You could also find another TV channel with live video and audio stream. There is a list of TV stations at http://wwitv.com/ Cheers, Renat I went to that link above and it was not even close to me. I think it may be about right for one of my ISP's addresses or something though. Also, my old ISP didn't work right either. It said another state even. How is that supposed to work anyway? Dale :-) :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?
Hello Renat, On 10/18/07, Renat Golubchyk [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: It's determined based on your IP address. You can try it yourself at http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_my_ip I used the service, and the service determines my location with the utmost precision. I tried the following trick: an anonymizer. Basically, I accessed web-based proxy services and in the dialog I inserted http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_my_ip. The list: http://www.dmoz.org/Computers/Internet/Proxying_and_Filtering/Hosted_Proxy_Services/Free/CGI_Proxy// The results: http://www.daveproxy.co.uk/ is identified TX (Texas), United States. http://anonymouse.org/ is identified as an anonymous proxy. http://www.kproxy.com/ is identified B8 (Provence-Alpes-Cote d'Azur), France. http://www.cooltunnel.com/ is identified GA (Georgia), United States. http://www.iphide.com/ is identified TX (Texas), United States. and finally what I wanted: http://www.phproxy.org/ is identified H9 (London), United Kingdom. Do you think on the day of the GP BBC will consider my location as London? Does anyone know by any chance some other web-based proxy services that would identify as from the UK? If you want to have an IP address in UK you will have to use a proxy in UK. You can find a list of proxies at http://tools.rosinstrument.com/proxy/ Here I have a problem. I already connect to the Internet through a transparent proxy managed by my University. I tried to use this proxy planet2.manchester.ac.uk:3128, and that after having established connection. However, any web page fails to download. Do you know if it is at all possible to use the above UK proxy address on top of the mandatory proxy address that I have to use to simply have an Internet connection? You could also find another TV channel with live video and audio stream. There is a list of TV stations at http://wwitv.com/ Again, my proxy problems: all content coming from the above site tries to access some funny port, and both mplayerplug-in and gecko-mediaplayer fail (when using either Opera or Firefox). Regards, Liviu -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?
Dan Farrell wrote: On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:34:58 -0500 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How is that supposed to work anyway? I don't know, but the aforementioned site appears to sell the database, so I bet they use a combination of heuristics and rote data collection to build the info. I ask because I have seen other sites that do something similar and they never seem to be correct for me. Maybe it is because I live out in the sticks. Heck, I'm still on dial-up but DSL is coming sometime soon. Dale :-) :-) :-)
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 19:25:39 Liviu Andronic wrote: Hello, On 10/18/07, Novensiles divi Flamen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I doubt anything about their verification happens from the browser, it would all be IP based. So bounce through a proxy in the UK. I am already required to connect to the Internet through a transparent proxy (educational environment). Is there any way to connect to BBC through an anonymous UK proxy on top? Nothing fundamental about a transparent proxy prevents going to another proxy. Security conscious admins often do though. - Noven -- -- Novensiles divi Flamen -- Miles Militis Fons -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] How to make Opera or Firefox believe my location is the UK?
On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 08:34:58 -0500 Dale [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: How is that supposed to work anyway? I don't know, but the aforementioned site appears to sell the database, so I bet they use a combination of heuristics and rote data collection to build the info. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
