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Find Visitor Geographical location from IP address using ASP
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| Article by: | Per Soderlind (2/26/2003) |
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| Summary: | Where are your internet visitors coming from? Using simple ASP and the free GEOIP Database from Maxmind its quite easy to find out |
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Find Visitor Geographical location from IP address using ASP
Download GeoIP files - 6 Kb
Online Demo
Introduction
With GeoIP you can detect where your visitors are coming from. You can use this information to deliver personalized information (see image below), reducing credit card fraud, analyzing web server logs (I use it for SNIFF), target banner ads, .... (see Solutions at MaxMind - http://www.maxmind.com/)
Click on the image for a test
Note
If you can install a component on your web server, you should download the GeoIP component from MaxMind . I wrote GeoIP.asp since my provider doesn't allow me to install components.
Prerequisite
You need the GeoIP database - http://www.maxmind.com/app/free, and you need ADO 2.5 or later since GeoIP.asp uses the ADO Stream object to read the GeoIP database.
Installation
Download the GeoIP.dat database from MaxMind
http://www.maxmind.com/app/free
Put GeoIP.asp, example.asp and GeoIP.dat in a catalog on your web server.
Test the installation by accessing the example.asp page
http://yourserver/path/example.asp
Methods and Properties
GeoIP.asp exposes these public methods and properties
Properties:
GeoIPDataBase - Sets the path and filename to GeoIP.dat
ErrNum - Returns the error number (if <> 0, there's an error)
Methods:
lookupCountryName - Find an IP's country name
example:
strCountryName = oGeoIP.lookupCountryName(strIP)
lookupCountryCode - Find an IP's country code
example:
strCountryCode = oGeoIP.lookupCountryCode(strIP)
Using the code
It's rather simple to use this code:
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