Mike Liebhold wrote:
http://local.live.com/
My home IP address is officially registerd to a proxy server in San
Diego. I'm connected via satellite behind the proxy from a very remote
location in northern California, and yet the findme utility properly
identified my actual geographic position. The satellite service provider
has -not- revealed my actual address. ( I checked with friends in their
net ops center.) The data for local.live.com was purchased from a
commercial ip geolocation service who determined my actual, rural
location using undisclosed mechanisms.
The only way to be certain that your proxy isn't advertising your true
IP address is to have a look at the HTTP headers it is sending out. I
have a web page which does this:
http://www.ccsl.carleton.ca/~jamuir/mirror.php
As for http://local.live.com, I've tried it out twice (each time
selecting "Use IP Address"): once without a proxy, and once with a
proxy (a SOCKS proxy in Belgium). Without the proxy, my location was
correctly determined. With the proxy, my location was reported as being
in Belgium. I deleted cookies in between the trials.
-James
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