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Title: Using the IP address
Post by: John Fligg on November 28, 2011, 04:00:18 AM

In his presentation Bruce made mention of tools that could be used to get the location of an IP Address.

Does anyone have an example of how this is done and/or what the tools are. IOW are they built in to NT6.

Probably getting a little ahead of myself but I am trying to get some basic facts to make some decisions.

Thank you

John

Title: Re: Using the IP address
Post by: Bruce on November 28, 2011, 06:16:58 AM

I use a library called IP2Location which costs like $49 per year. There are other (free) libraries I think as well.
The "MultiSite" example is an example of using this, although of course you need to feed it your own csv file (from IP2Location).

the thing I showed in the webinar was "Location Services" where your browser may, or may not feed the server some location information - and of course the user is prompted with whether to share the location or not. For desktops I'd use the IP2Location approach, for mobile I'd use Location Services.

cheers
Bruce