[ale] Can I identify the country of origin?

Matt Smith msmith at risklabs.com
Wed Sep 25 11:05:48 EDT 2002


If I'm not mistaken, Apache already has this functionality.  It's not based
on the IP's country of origin, but the language settings of the browser
which are sent with the request.

If you've ever noticed the default homepage(s) that come with Apache,
there's one for basically many languages, and apache will auto-select the
page and display it automatically.  I'd provide a good link, but I can't get
to apache.org right now for some reason. :/

I would go down that path before trying to roll your own.  (Assuming you're
using Apache, of course)

If you're not using apache, you can analyze your server logs using webalizer
and it does a rough estimation of country of origin - it even generates a
pretty pie chart. :)


--Matt


-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Lynch [mailto:jwl at sgi.com]
To: ale at ale.org
Sent: Wednesday, September 25, 2002 10:54 AM
To: Ale
Subject: [ale] Can I identify the country of origin?


I know it is an off topic question, but this group represents some of
the best minds in town.  My boss asked me if I could identify the
country of origin of systems connecting to our web page. I think he
wants to automate the language displayed.  I told him I wasn't aware of
anything, but decided I'd ask a larger audience before I gave him an
absolute no.  I know I can do a name lookup and sometimes figure out the
country, but that won't always work. 

Ideas?

Thanks,
Jim.

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