Date: Wed, 20 Nov 2002 08:17:09 -0500 From: "Dan Langille" <dan@langille.org> To: <mit@dreamlabs.com> Cc: freebsd-hubs@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: automatic URL refreshing to local country mirror Message-ID: <3DDB4505.3085.B883B3F9@localhost> In-Reply-To: <000601c29039$2ada9960$c700a8c0@shadow>
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On 19 Nov 2002 at 21:04, Will Mitayai Keeso Rowe wrote: > This is just a thought, something in my terabyte-long list of things I > dreams about. > > My laptop connects to the public internet through a residential cable > connection in Toronto, Canada. > > when I go to http://www.google.com/ I get redirected to > http://www.google.ca/ > > how do they do this? I can think of several ways to do it, but I've > not really experimented with them. My guess: IP address. If you know the IP address, you can figure out what country it "belongs". This information is avaialable via "whois". -- Dan Langille : http://www.langille.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-hubs" in the body of the message
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