How well does http://hostip.info work for those of you behind proxies?
Andrew Ruby interface to HostIP.info http://code.highearthorbit.com/geo/geolocation.rb On 4/18/06, Tom Longson (nym) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > What's more frightening is that it told me where I was located and I > didn't even visit the website. > > nym > http://igargoyle.com/ > > On 4/18/06, Kevin Elliott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Ahh but Mike said that his proxy was NOT passing that information, > > and was gathering data some other way. > > > > Kevin > > > > On Apr 18, 2006, at 10:25 AM, Justin Mason wrote: > > > > > > > > It may not be so complex; many proxies (e.g. squid) will pass on a > > > header > > > to the remote HTTP server containing the proxy client's IP address. > > > > > > http://www.linofee.org/~jel/proxy/Squid/rel-notes-1_1.html#x > > > > > > --j. > > > > > > Mike Liebhold writes: > > >> Kevin Elliott wrote: > > >> > > >>> Can you elaborate on what you believe they are doing? > > >> > > >> The most plausible answer is that some website that has my address > > >> that > > >> I volunteered to recieve a service or to buy something, matched my > > >> street address to my IP address and sold the data to an IP gelocation > > >> agregator. > > >> > > >>> > > >>> Kevin > > >>> > > >>> > > >>>> 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. > > >>> > > >>> > > >>> _______________________________________________ > > >>> Geowanking mailing list > > >>> [email protected] > > >>> http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > >>> > > >>> > > >> _______________________________________________ > > >> Geowanking mailing list > > >> [email protected] > > >> http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > > _______________________________________________ > > > Geowanking mailing list > > > [email protected] > > > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > > > _______________________________________________ > > Geowanking mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > > > _______________________________________________ > Geowanking mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking > -- Andrew Turner [EMAIL PROTECTED] 42.4266N x 83.4931W http://highearthorbit.com Northville, Michigan, USA _______________________________________________ Geowanking mailing list [email protected] http://lists.burri.to/mailman/listinfo/geowanking
