Re: Re: ip to country
| From: | Chris Shiflett | 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
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