[thelist] I need some help with Asp 2.0

jay.blanchard at niicommunications.com jay.blanchard at niicommunications.com
Fri May 24 09:15:01 CDT 2002


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I'm in a bind. I know that there is asp code to detect browser settings and
other assorted things. Is there any code or has anybody had to detect where
the client is in the world?
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Most good ASP books have a section on how to detect browser information.

There are things out there that will help (such as BrowserHawk), but they
will not work for all of your site visitors. It has to do with the headers
sent with each HTTP request as not all headers that are sent identify the
area of origin. You can see this when you look at log files, there is
usually a large amount of visitors from an unknown region. IP addresses
handle some of the identification, but not all. Overseas visitors are often
the most problematic to track.

HTH!

Jay

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