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The IP to country component was
created in a day including documentation and data processing.
It was something I needed for 4D
Host and it has a number of uses depending on what you
are looking for:
- Real Time Geo-Locating (Country)
- Provide Location Aware Content (language, currency, etc.)
- Corporate Websites/E-commerce (think global, act local)
- Fraud Detection (Credit Card Fraud, etc.)
- On-line Campaign (targeted Banner Ads)
- Digital Rights Management
- Web Server Log Analysis
- Auto-selection of fields on forms (country, currency,language,
etc.)
- Filter access on basis of originating country
- Spam Filtering
Used in conjunction with parameter 3 of the On Web Connection
Method (IP address of the web client) this data based component
can add real benefits to any web based solution.
There are a number of commercially available databases on
the market which have this information but I opted for a zero
cost solution from http://www.directi.com.
Whilst I plan to keep the data file up to date you may wish
to analyse the file as provided and update it yourself. Please
read the licensing
and copyright page.
The component provided has two tables, two methods and a
text based data file which is intended to be imported.
It would not take a genius to re-create this work but I offer
it as is to those who cannot be bothered.
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