On 10/09/06, Joey Hess <joeyh@debian.org> wrote:
Robert Millan wrote: > +iplocated_country=`wget -q http://api.hostip.info/country.php -O - | head -c 2` This is a third-party point of failure. Altough your code does gracefully degrade if it fails. Would Debian be able to run this service itself if we decided to use this? Or would that be a bad idea? Just curious.
Wasn't geoip[1][ supposed to be something which did some location <-> IP association?
Anyway, I rather like the idea of doing IP location, but I lean more toward only using the info to override the user's country in mirror selection, rather than overriding the whole countrychooser. For one thing, it wouldn't need to ask the user an insulting question ("do you know what country you're in?") if the iplocated country was only used to change the default mirror.
[1] http://packages.debian.org/unstable/net/geoip-bin -- Regards, EddyP ============================================= "Imagination is more important than knowledge" A.Einstein