[Goodies-dev] http://archive.xfce.org/geolocation

[Yves-Alexis Perez]

On jeu., 2012-07-12 at 13:13 +0200, Harald Judt wrote:
> Hi guys,
> 
> I'm investigating the use of geolocation auto-detection by IP-address of 
> xfce4-weather-plugin, and here's the result of the HTTP request:
> 
> http://archive.xfce.org/geolocation
> 
> <Response>
>    <Ip>208.115.113.90</Ip>
>    <CountryCode>US</CountryCode>
>    <CountryName>United States</CountryName>
>    <RegionCode>WA</RegionCode>
>    <RegionName>Washington</RegionName>
>    <RegionName>206</RegionName>
>    <City>Seattle</City>
>    <Latitude>47.489101</Latitude>
>    <Longitude>-122.290802</Longitude>
> </Response>

I think it's a static page.
> 
> That's far, far, far away from me and not my IP. Where does it get that 
> IP from?
> 
> In fact, I haven't got one usable result yet. Do I need extra parameters?
> 
>  From weather-search.c:
>    /* archive.xfce.org is our download server that runs mod_geoip
>     * with the www.maxmind.com database */
>    weather_http_receive_data ("archive.xfce.org", "/geolocation",
>                               proxy_host, proxy_port,
>                               cb_geolocation, data);
> 
> Now this one works fine:
> http://www.maxmind.com/app/locate_my_ip
> 
> And to be sure I've tried another one and it works correctly too:
> http://www.geoiptool.com
> 
> Only archive.xfce.org does not. Is this service still supported / 
> maintained? If so, can someone please look at it and fix it?

Are you sure this is really a geolocation service? I don't remember
anything about that.

Regards,
-- 
Yves-Alexis

-- 
Yves-Alexis
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