How often, and how quickly, do you need to do this? As "retro" as it sounds, you can still get dial-up Internet access in most of the country. Sign up for an account with a big provider that has numbers nationwide, and whenever you need to see ads in Missouri, dial the Saint Louis POP.
Obviously, there's a nasty bottleneck here in that dial-up service is very slow, but if you can afford 1-2 minutes' latency while your computer connects to a remote location and downloads a single Web page at 40kbps, it might be sufficient. David Smith -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Kenneth Voort Sent: Tuesday, July 24, 2012 2:31 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [lopsa-discuss] IP Geolocation Challenges Unfortunately this wouldn't work in our case - we do not always control the process which selects the ads which are displayed - there's a lot of Akami (sp?) caching and real time bidding going on under the hood of this thing. We probably need a method to actually have these requests originate from any state/province in North America without actually having infrastructure there... The ads we serve on a geolocation basis from our servers or at our behest, these methods work for, and quite well (we use the supercookie and have a hacked MaxMind database). But we don't control the selection process all the time. On 12-07-24 01:03 PM, Robert Hajime Lanning wrote: > 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/ > > _______________________________________________ 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/ _______________________________________________ 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/
