RE: [PHP] Correlation between visitor's physical location and IP address

> Hello all > > I am currently working on a project where prices in 2 currencies must be > displayed on a web site. Web visitors from Europe should be shown > the price > in Euro and those outside Europe should be shown the price in US Dollars. > > Due to a whole list of 'political' problems, the European > customers should > not be able to see the USD prices and the non-EU customers should not be > able to see the USD prices. I know that sucks, but that is the > way it is. I > cannot change it, unfortunately. > There is none, and you know it :) There is *NO WAY* to hide the prices from eachother, and having differences in prices is just plain wrong business, you WILL get complaints unless you have good reasons to have different prices - in which case you dont need to hide them. You can try using this: http://www.caida.org/tools/utilities/netgeo/NGServer/index.xml But your plan vanishes in a jiffie when the user surfs using an anonymous proxy. > > Somehow these two sites 'know' where I am physically located. Now, how do > they do that? > Altavista probably probes IE/Netscape, IE at least sends language settings. (Even 'less preferred locale languages') Imdb probably checks domain extension or ripe info.