Hi:

I'm writing an "international" web application. The application will be
accessed from around the world and I would like to write a "country
customization" routine. If someone from the USA accesses it I want to show
a US flag, if an "Aussie" accesses it the Australian flag should display -
etc.

I understand you can be fairly accurate in deterring where the person is
located based on their IP addresses. I also understand that there are some
numbers that you can't be completely sure of.

Does anyone know where I could find the list that I'm looking for?

Thanks very much!

Fred

The best way of doing this that I know of would be to use
Request.UserLanguages(0). It returns the first country code in the client's
browser settings, for which you can get a quick reference by going to tools
"Fred Nelson" <fred (AT) smartybird (DOT) com> wrote

Jonathan:

This looks VERY GOOD - I'll give this a shot!

Thanks very much!

Fred

"Jonathan Amend" <cephas_is (AT) hotmail (DOT) com> wrote

I'm not really into microsoft programming, but you could have a look
at my code and see whether you can translate it into .NET or whatever.
The java version is named javainetlocator (available from sf.net). The
perl version is IP::Country on search.cpan.org

The perl version is bundled with instructions on how to put together
the database, and locations for the raw data.

Nigel Wetters
Research Fellow
London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine

"Fred Nelson" <fred (AT) smartybird (DOT) com> wrote


This isn't a very accurate method. A combination of
HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE and IP->country geolocation turns out to be much
better. See Paul Hastings (ColdFusion) work here:

http://tessaban.tei.or.th/unicode/JavaLocator.cfm