On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Marc-André Pelletier <[email protected]> wrote: > On 05/29/2014 10:49 AM, Jeremy Baron wrote: >> I'm interested in learning why the IP is needed at all though. It >> seems to me that doing it client-side may negate the original purpose >> of sending it? i.e. it can now be spoofed trivially > > If I understood correctly, the point is to provide libraries local to > the asking user as the default search basis.
Ah, in that case maybe better to use one of the other values from https://geoiplookup.wikimedia.org/ and you could also support html5 geolocation. But maybe the OCLC side is currently only able to support location as a function of IP. -Jeremy _______________________________________________ Labs-l mailing list [email protected] https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/labs-l
