CountryHawk may be good (or bad...) but it's certainly far from 100% accurate. Just looking at the docs real quick, it uses a database of ip:country mappings that has to be updated regularly. Even if they put out a new version every day, I seriously doubt they can keep track of all 4 billion+ possible ip addresses accurately. Not only that, dynamic ip's, multinational isp's, and proxies are unknown's. What if a netblock owner with an ASN number sells out or moves to a different country, or heck, just loans some unused net blocks he had since the 80's to a buddy?
To me, if a product is reliable, it means 100%. Browserhawk would not fit my definition of reliable. Not even close if you ask me. -- jon mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Wednesday, December 11, 2002, 9:53:21 AM, you wrote: >> There is no reliable way to determine the country of a user on a web >> site based on ip, user locale, reverse dns, or any other technique. AJ> -- Course, this product begs to differ: AJ> http://www.browserhawk.com/products/country/intro.asp AJ> AJ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Archives: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?forumid=4 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/index.cfm?method=subscribe&forumid=4 FAQ: http://www.thenetprofits.co.uk/coldfusion/faq Get the mailserver that powers this list at http://www.coolfusion.com
