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Re: How to redirect user based on user country?

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justaguy wrote:
> On Oct 14, 3:31 am, Arno Welzel <use...@arnowelzel.de> wrote:
>> justaguy, 2011-10-14 05:00:
>>
>>> Hi,
>>> I wonder how we can accomplish this task?
>>> Say, a user from India lands athttp://www.knowledgenotebook.com/download.html
>>> (actually it would behttp://www.knowledgenotebook.com/download.php)
>>> I'd like to direct this visitor tohttp://bla.bla.bla.bla.in/download.html
>>> And if the user is from China
>>> it would be redirected tohttp://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.
>>
>> --
>> Arno Welzelhttp://arnowelzel.dehttp://de-rec-fahrrad.de
> 
> All right, thanks, so, it's quite involved.

Yes.

You need to develop and probably manually maintain a database of IP 
address blocks versus country.

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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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