Hi , I want to identify the physical location of a client requesting a page from my web application. I have tried Request.ServerVariable["HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE"].. this works but not a good idea, as the client might have not chaned his regional settings... Other
way ... IP to region mapping if any one can suggest a better way ? nothing like it... -ashish
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I think this is a good idea, becasue when user sets his/hers regional settings the access-language is set accordingly. And users who know how to change this, can switch the language manually. The only problem I could imagine if you have a site for language
minority in a country, where people would use computer with the majority language of for tourists on road. I think the accept-language is good starting point. (Better then IP-country mapping). But should always have a way of manually switching the language.
If you are not comfortable you should let the user choose on the start page - although this can be a real pain for returning users, so you should store their preference in a cookie
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Identify culture(of the client) from web request and redirect!
Feb 02, 2005 07:34 AM|madkaikar_ashish|LINK
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