[thelist] Finding the users country of origin

Veronica Yuill veronicay at archetype-it.com
Mon Feb 25 02:24:00 CST 2002


At 22:53 24/02/2002 +0100, you wrote:
>You can probably evaluate the "Accept-Language" header(s) that a browser
>sends to the server. More info (assuming you are using PHP:
>http://www.php.net/manual/en/language.variables.predefined.php. Scroll down
>to $HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE.

Errr ... but that won't tell you the country of origin. Take Spanish for
example -- it's spoken all over the world (as is English of course!!).


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