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Re: Dumb question for in-HTML query

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David Mark wrote:
> On Mar 17, 11:37 pm, Robert Baer<robertb...@localnet.com>  wrote:
>>     In my HTML webpage, i would like to obtain the visitor's ISP or
>> useable equivalent.
>>     With that info, i would like to get/derive the visitor's country at
>> minimum.
>
> And if the user and ISP are in different countries?
* I would guess that may be expensive for the user - long distance phone 
connection for dial-up account and equivalent if something like Comcast 
is used for high speed.
   In any case, if that were the case it would be nice toget info on 
location for both.

>
>>     If i was very ambitious, perhaps the city name as well.
>
> That's also going to be difficult to derive from their chosen ISP.
* Perhaps; Google Analytics seems to (somehow) get that info in many 
cases. Not really a "wiash", just curious.

>
>>     I do not want to wait a day (eg: Google Analytics) because by that
>> time, the visitor is obviously gone and the info becomes almost useless
>> for what i would like to do.
>>     In less than a second, get ISP, derive country, index that into a
>> table as what to present to the visitor (ie: what new page to call/jump to).
>
> Why?  If you are looking for accepted languages, check the appropriate
> HTTP header.  If you are concerned with date and currency formats, you
> can try to infer those from the language, but that's also
> problematic.  You should let the users indicate their preferences.
* What HTTP header? A user from somewhere accesses my webpage - how can 
its internal script "know" that?
   Do not care about date formats, and certainly care even less about 
currency (or formats).
   Crudely speaking i would like to reasonably infer the country first, 
and maybe the language second.

>
>>
>>     Possible?
>
> No and this is unrelated to JS.  Please follow-up elsewhere.
   Then please tell me what the query IS related to..a vector, please.

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Dumb question for in-HTML query Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2012-03-17 19:37 -0800
  Re: Dumb question for in-HTML query David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-17 19:53 -0700
    Re: Dumb question for in-HTML query Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2012-03-21 20:22 -0800
      Re: Dumb question for in-HTML query Gene Wirchenko <genew@ocis.net> - 2012-03-21 22:27 -0700
        Re: Dumb question for in-HTML query Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2012-03-23 00:13 -0800
      Re: Dumb question for in-HTML query David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-28 20:25 -0700
  Re: Dumb question for in-HTML query Norman Peelman <npeelmandog@cfl.rr.com> - 2012-03-18 07:40 -0400
    Re: Dumb question for in-HTML query David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-20 00:24 -0700
      Re: Dumb question for in-HTML query Scott Johnson <noonehome@chalupasworld.com> - 2012-03-20 06:06 -0700
        Re: Dumb question for in-HTML query David Mark <dmark.cinsoft@gmail.com> - 2012-03-20 16:32 -0700
        Re: Dumb question for in-HTML query Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2012-03-21 20:31 -0800
      Re: Dumb question for in-HTML query Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2012-03-21 20:30 -0800
    Re: Dumb question for in-HTML query Robert Baer <robertbaer@localnet.com> - 2012-03-21 20:28 -0800

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