Re: Re: ip to country

From: Date: Sun, 21 Mar 2004 21:38:38 +0000
Subject: Re: Re: ip to country
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--- Filip de Waard <dewaard@netcollective.nl> wrote: > Using HTTP headers to identify the country where a visitor comes from > is totally inaccurate. That's not really very fair to HTTP. There is no header that identifies the country, so it's not inaccurate - it doesn't exist. :-) Trying to accurately determine a country from a language isn't the fault of HTTP. I'm sure this is what you were implying, but I wanted to make sure HTTP wasn't being blamed. Chris ===== Chris Shiflett - http://shiflett.org/ PHP Security - O'Reilly Coming mid-2004 HTTP Developer's Handbook - Sams http://httphandbook.org/ PHP Community Site http://phpcommunity.org/

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