If you are just wanting to be able to render the page as it is seen, you can do this with some coding changes.
Create a special cookie that can contain region override data. And if you are security conscience you can limit to specific source IPs where you pay attention to it.
On 07/24/12 09:39, Morgan Blackthorne wrote:
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] <mailto:[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] <mailto:[email protected]> https://lists.lopsa.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/discuss This list provided by the League of Professional System Administrators http://lopsa.org/ _______________________________________________ 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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