Location detecting tecniques for IP adresses
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What are the location detecting tecniques for IP adresses?
I know to look at the
$_SERVER['HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE']
(not accurate but mostly useful to detect location, for example if an IP range's users set French to their browser then it means that this range belongs to France
gethostbyaddr($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])
then may be to whois gethostbyaddr($_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'])
sometimes
$HTTP_USER_AGENT
(Firefox's user agent string has language code, not accurate but mostly can be used to detect the location)
But what about cities?
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