What we did at Livemocha to address this kind of thing was to take our staging environment and adjust/override the IP in the geolocation DB to be in the region we wanted. (At one point, testing on stage made it look like we were coming from China.) Depending on your geolocation code, that may be more difficult (especially if you're doing ads through something like embedded iframes). If that's the case, then I'd suggest setting up something like EC2 instances just to do the snapshot part from another location.
~*~ StormeRider ~*~ "With hearts immortal, we stand before our lives A soul against oblivion, forever asking why This upside down symphony in a paradox called life Our hearts immortal What you give to love, will never die" On Tue, Jul 24, 2012 at 9:26 AM, Kenneth Voort <[email protected]>wrote: > Hi list, > > We've come up against an interesting problem - perhaps a few folks > on this list have some insight... > > My employer provides third party online advertising services across > Canada and into the U.S. One of our value-adds is a verification service > which renders pages on which our ads appear so clients are able to > verify that the ads they've paid for are appearing in the correct place > at the correct time. This service essentially takes a screenshot of a > page (webkit) and saves it for later review so clients are able to see > how a page looked at a specific point in time. > > The problem we are running into is with geotargeted advertisements - > our server farm is located in Toronto, and therefore cannot see anything > targeted to a different region. We've been tasked with providing this > service for geotargeted campaigns across the continent - folks want to > see how our advertisements are appearing in any one of a multitude of > provinces and states. Of course, we do not have servers physically > located anywhere but Toronto and LA, so this creates a problem. > > We've looked at a few options - proxy services, VPN services, cloud > computing, ARIN SWIP changes, talking to the geolocation providers, and > we're in talks with a few network providers to see if some network kung > fu can make this work, but we haven't yet found a magic bullet. > > Does anyone have any ideas as to how we can retrieve webpages from > arbitrary locations, or somehow fool the major geolocation databases, > and make this work at a state or province level of precision? > _______________________________________________ > Discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss > This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators > http://lopsa.org/ >
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