[ic] IC Front End for International Support

[interchange-users@icdevgroup.org (Dan Browning)]

At 06:07 PM 7/29/2002 -0700, you wrote:
>How many of you folks have sites that operate internationally and need to 
>know the location of the visitor before the IC session can accurately start?
>
>I would be interested in the various methods used to handle this; perhaps 
>from the obvious FEDEX.com style of choosing your country to something a 
>little more automated and less 'spoof' proof like operating off the whois 
>information for the visiting IP.
>
>For us, knowing if the visitor is from North America, the UK, or elsewhere 
>but the first two creates a situation where we need to handle their 
>pricing, taxation, and shipping/handling differently.
>
>I'd really appreciate any thoughts on this...
>
>Regards,
>
>Barry

That would be a fun way to say, "it looks like you're from __" and still 
have the ability to change the locality.  But it wouldn't do me any good, 
since I dial-in to Russia, ssh to China, and then browse the web from 
there.  ;-)  Actually, the people that do that are the people that go to 
defcon.

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