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Re: How to redirect user based on user country? [message #175638 is a reply to message #175630]

Fri, 14 October 2011 09:53

Jerry Stuckle
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On 10/13/2011 11:00 PM, justaguy wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I wonder how we can accomplish this task?
> Say, a user from India lands at http://www.knowledgenotebook.com/download.html
> (actually it would be http://www.knowledgenotebook.com/download.php )
> I'd like to direct this visitor to http://bla.bla.bla.bla.in/download.html
>
> And if the user is from China
> it would be redirected to http://bla.bla.bla.bla.cn/download.html
> so and so forth.
>
> This approach would be more elegant if easily doable. If so how?
>
> Though another approach is also doable, messy.
> Download mirror site in India
> Download mirror site in China
> ...
>
> Thanks.
>
>

You can't do it reliably. You can only go by the user's ip address
using one of the geoip databases around.

But these databases have limited accuracy. They depend on the user's ip
address being in the same country as the user (which may or may not be
correct, especially for dial-up users and those using a proxy).
Additionally, they depend on an ISP not allocating ip addresses across
multiple countries.

Additionally, just because a server is in the same country doesn't mean
it's necessarily the best server to use. There are many reasons a
server in another country would be better.

A better way is to display a list of servers and let the user choose.

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		How to redirect user based on user country? By: justaguy on Fri, 14 October 2011 03:00
		Re: How to redirect user based on user country? By: Arno Welzel on Fri, 14 October 2011 07:31
		Re: How to redirect user based on user country? By: justaguy on Fri, 14 October 2011 09:42
		Re: How to redirect user based on user country? By: The Natural Philosoph on Fri, 14 October 2011 11:18
		Re: How to redirect user based on user country? By: houghi on Fri, 14 October 2011 17:09
		Re: How to redirect user based on user country? By: justaguy on Sat, 15 October 2011 15:25
		Re: How to redirect user based on user country? By: Jerry Stuckle on Fri, 14 October 2011 09:53

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