Re: Redirection based on IP address.

2002-12-11 Thread Jon Hall
CountryHawk may be good (or bad...) but it's certainly far from 100% accurate. Just looking at the docs real quick, it uses a database of ip:country mappings that has to be updated regularly. Even if they put out a new version every day, I seriously doubt they can keep track of all 4 billion+ possi

Re: Redirection based on IP address.

2002-12-11 Thread Aaron Johnson
> There is no reliable way to determine the country of a user on a web > site based on ip, user locale, reverse dns, or any other technique. -- Course, this product begs to differ: http://www.browserhawk.com/products/country/intro.asp AJ -- Aaron Johnson http://cephas.net/blog/ [EMAIL PROTECTED

RE: Redirection based on IP address.

2002-12-10 Thread jon roig
ailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 11, 2002 9:49 AM To: CF-Talk Subject: Re: Redirection based on IP address. Yup. Thanks. How do I reliably determine the country from the IP address realtime. I think that the tricky part. Is there a CF tag that will do that for me? Srimanta - Ori

Re: Redirection based on IP address.

2002-12-10 Thread Jon Hall
> Srimanta S> - Original Message - S> From: Scott Brady <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> S> To: CF-Talk <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> S> Sent: Tuesday, December 10, 2002 4:01 PM S> Subject: Re: Redirection based on IP address. >> Assuming you can reliably determine which IP address

Re: Redirection based on IP address.

2002-12-10 Thread Srimanta
December 10, 2002 4:01 PM Subject: Re: Redirection based on IP address. > Assuming you can reliably determine which IP addresses go with which country, it should be fairly easy using CGI.remote_addr (which gives you their IP address). > > Of course, what if an Australian user is on vacation i

RE: Redirection based on IP address.

2002-12-10 Thread Matthew Walker
Easiest is to use the browser locale setting -- cgi.http_accrept_language. You can set this for your browser in tools > internet options > languages. Matthew Walker ESW http://www.electricsheep.co.nz/ > -Original Message- > From: Srimanta [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Thursday, 12 De

Re: Redirection based on IP address.

2002-12-10 Thread Scott Brady
Assuming you can reliably determine which IP addresses go with which country, it should be fairly easy using CGI.remote_addr (which gives you their IP address). Of course, what if an Australian user is on vacation in the US and wants to see the Australian page? I'd suggest still giving the user