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List:       kde-panel-devel
Subject:    Re: Review Request: Patch to use the iplocationtools.com geolocation
From:       Andrew Coles <andrew_coles () yahoo ! co ! uk>
Date:       2009-04-29 22:00:46
Message-ID: 930624.90799.qm () web25908 ! mail ! ukl ! yahoo ! com
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> The nicest solution would be of course to just query iplocationtools.com with 
> "my current IP whatever", but for that, iplocationtools would need some kind 
> of API to extract the current IP from the HTTP request. Which it doesn't have 
> as far as I can see.

If you visit iplocationtools.com, they give location data for ones IP on the first page of the \
site - so evidently, they can do it, just haven't made an API for it.  I've got in touch with \
them to ask for the API call to be made, I'll report back on progress with that - I can't see \
it being too big a deal, and they seem good at handling requests pretty quickly..  In terms of \
reliability of service, whatismyip may be unreliable, but one of the big advantages of \
iplocationtools.com is that their servers can handle a few thousand geolocation requests per \
second - so we don't need to worry about it dying a death as geolocation becomes widespread in \
KDE.  Hence, I'd prefer to stick to it if possible - here's hoping they can sort out the API.

In the mean time, does anyone suppose there's a chance of a 'what is my IP'.php file being \
hosted on plasma.kde org as a stop-gap measure?  I can't see it using too much bandwidth, and \
the KDE servers seem pretty damned reliable.

Andrew


      
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