Re: Filtering JSP page based on client IP

From:
=?ISO-8859-1?Q?Arne_Vajh=F8j?= <arne@vajhoej.dk>
Newsgroups:
comp.lang.java.programmer
Date:
Wed, 10 Jan 2007 21:39:26 -0500
Message-ID:
<45a5a355$0$49202$14726298@news.sunsite.dk>
Mich wrote:

Because of local content rules I have to make some website pages unavailable
for browsers in Canada. Since I am in Canada and I obviously need to view
those pages I need some code such as

if(IP==canada) {
   if(IP!=my IP) {
      This page is not available in Canada
  }
}

I did a Google search on this and everything I found was about filtering the
complete website; and I would really like to be able to do this for
individual pages.


It is called geofiltering/geolocalisation.

You need some simple code and an IP-to-country
database.

There are a couple of free such databases available and
some commercial solutions.

You should be aware that:
1) those databases are not 100% correct more like 95-99%
2) they need to be constantly updated
3) they can not catch people using a proxy server
    in another country than where they are sitting

I have a Java program to load data and a demo
of how to test in a JSP page.

Drop me an email if you want a copy of the code.

Arne

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