[thelist] Finding the users country of origin

DESCHAMPS Stéphane DvSI/SICoR stephane.deschamps at francetelecom.com
Mon Feb 25 04:13:02 CST 2002


> Veronica,
>
> > 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!!).
>
> The Accep-Language header, combined with other indicators,
> can still help
> you to determine it. You won't get a 100% accurate answer
> anyway I think.

Especially when you consider that all AOL users, for example, are considered
located in the US... Here you'll get a [divide american AOL users / total
AOL users]% non-accurate answer.




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