Obtaining the users IP Address

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mike55

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Hi all

I am trying to obtain the user IP address, to determine what country that they are comming from. The purpose of this information is to redirect the user to a particular page that is configured for the individual country.

Any suggestions on how to achieve this? So far I have managed to obtain the IP address of the server, but not the other way around.

Mike55.
 
mike55 said:
Hi all

I am trying to obtain the user IP address, to determine what country that they are comming from. The purpose of this information is to redirect the user to a particular page that is configured for the individual country.

Any suggestions on how to achieve this? So far I have managed to obtain the IP address of the server, but not the other way around.

Mike55.
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Request.UserHostAddress should do the trick.
 
Many Thanks for the reply. Here is the code that I have started using:
Code: 
    Private Sub DetermineUsersIPAddress()
        'Response.Write(Request.ServerVariables("REMOTE_ADDR"))
        Dim strIp As String

        strIp = Request.ServerVariables("HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR")
        If strIp = "" Then
            strIp = Request.ServerVariables("REMOTE_ADDR")
        End If

        Response.Write(strIp)
    End Sub

Now the next step is to find the country that the IP address belongs to.

Mike55.
 
Visual Basic: 
'.Net 2.0
Dim host As String
host = System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry(Request.UserHostAddress).HostName

'.Net 1
Dim host As String
host = System.Net.Dns.GetHostByAddress(Request.UserHostAddress)

The variable host should contain the fully qualified domain name - the country might be obtainable from parsing this out. Be aware this is not 100% (probably nowhere near in fact.)

You might find a better solution is to run a WHOIS query agains the IP address -
http://www.vbdotnetheaven.com/Uploa...rticleID=63b59267-40fc-40d4-b724-df0d77dbef97 has a sample that might help.
 
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