RE: [PEAR-DEV] Package Proposal Services_IP2Country
| From: | Mika Tuupola | Date: | Fri, 17 Oct 2003 14:15:03 +0000 |
| Subject: | RE: [PEAR-DEV] Package Proposal Services_IP2Country | ||
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On Fri, 17 Oct 2003, Dave Mertens wrote:
> We already have Net_Geo (basicly doing the same stuff using the CAIDA
> webservice).
Well. NetGeo returns latitude and longtitude alongside with
countrycode while the ip2country stuff is just a record
from registries which tells to which country an ip address
block has been registered.
> A side from that, what's the use of it? php.net is using this database
> to redirect the user to a local mirror, but i guess you don't have
> mirrors of you're site ;-)
Lack of imagination :)
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