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Re: How to redirect user based on user country?

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From Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de>
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Subject Re: How to redirect user based on user country?
Date Fri, 14 Oct 2011 09:31:06 +0200
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justaguy, 2011-10-14 05:00:

> 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?

You can use a GeoIP database (e.g. <http://www.maxmind.com/app/php>)
which gives you a rough location based on the IP address of the client.
This doesn't make sence of course without servers actually located in
different countries.


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How to redirect user based on user country? justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2011-10-13 20:00 -0700
  Re: How to redirect user based on user country? Arno Welzel <usenet@arnowelzel.de> - 2011-10-14 09:31 +0200
    Re: How to redirect user based on user country? justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2011-10-14 02:42 -0700
      Re: How to redirect user based on user country? The Natural Philosopher <tnp@invalid.invalid> - 2011-10-14 12:18 +0100
      Re: How to redirect user based on user country? houghi <houghi@houghi.org.invalid> - 2011-10-14 19:09 +0200
        Re: How to redirect user based on user country? justaguy <lichunshen84@gmail.com> - 2011-10-15 08:25 -0700
  Re: How to redirect user based on user country? Jerry Stuckle <jstucklex@attglobal.net> - 2011-10-14 05:53 -0400

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