Suzanne — Thu, 20 Nov 2003 15:32:03 +0000

ROB wrote: it's not easy to cancel your free account either.

No joke. I had to threaten them with a lawsuit to get untangled. I would call, quote the reference number, they'd say, all cancelled. Then I'd get a bill.

So I'd call, they'd say, oh, sorry, don't worry about the bill, you're cancelled now. And then I'd get another bill.

I think that's how they keep customers, frankly.

ROB — Thu, 20 Nov 2003 06:30:19 +0000

Mark Hensler wrote: A-O-H3LL uses proxies. So you can't dig any information out of them. Heck, if a user goes to your site, their IP will change between pages. That's some mesed up system AOL has.

yeah i found that out when i tried generating a session hash based on useragent/remoteaddr and got complaints aolers couldnt log in. i had to sign up for a free account to figure out what was going on. just plain retarded imo.

it's not easy to cancel your free account either.

Mark Hensler — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 20:40:03 +0000

A-O-H3LL uses proxies. So you can't dig any information out of them. Heck, if a user goes to your site, their IP will change between pages. That's some mesed up system AOL has.

Aaaanyway. Besides Evil Empire Number Two...
You can use this data (link) to perform a location lookup on an IP. You'll need to write your own interface to the data or find one on the 'net.

I looked into this a few weeks/months ago for a project I was working on, but never got to the point of implementation.

Currently, my project uses a more complex but less accurate method to detect the user's country by examining the language settings of the client.

druagord — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 18:47:35 +0000

if your run apache as your webserver you can install mod_geoip the free version is going to give info about the country.the pay version can go into more details. but those system are limited (AOL will give wrong results)

Suzanne — Wed, 19 Nov 2003 17:56:26 +0000

Hi, Simplemind -- this particular forum (Forum Related Discussion and Annoucements) is for our forums, only. Your question would fall into the Server-Side of things, so I'm going to move it there.

The quick answer is yes, you can detect that information. I don't know the details, but it's part of reading the IP address and the ISPs location, I think.

Hopefully someone else will be able to answer you shortly.