Calling https://geoiplookup.wikimedia.org/ from JS would make the entire thing slower? Also I wonder if its capable of taking the load
On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Jeremy Baron <[email protected]> wrote: > 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 > -- Cheers, Nischay Nahata
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