Find user location (Please help me fix below or suggest any other way)

[Roomdu]

Hi

Hopefully, some one can help me with this issue. I am trying to implement a global site and hence was looking for a way to detect user location. I do not want to use any ip2location webservice or download a database or ask for user to "share location".

Anyways, I found this project. I implemented it , it detects my location correctly (US). However for my friend in Germany it is returning an empty string for Country.

http://javainetlocator.sourceforge.net/. I am using jar file from here. http://sourceforge.net/projects/javainetlocator/files/ with version 2.23

I am using CF 11 and my code is on

http://roomdu.com/geolocator/

PLEASE SUGGEST ME

  <cfset ipAddress=cgi.REMOTE_ADDR>

       <cfset geoLocator=createobject("component","remoteClassPath_geoLocator")>

       <cfset Ok=geoLocator.init()>

              <cfset thisLocale=geoLocator.findLocale(ipAddress,cgi.HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE)>

              <cfset thisCountry=geoLocator.findCountry(ipAddress,cgi.HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE)>

              <cfset thisLanguage=geoLocator.findLanguage(ipAddress,cgi.HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE)>

              <cfset thisC=geoLocator.showCountry(ipAddress)>

              <cfset thisL=geoLocator.showLanguage(ipAddress)>

              <cfset bLocaleValid=geoLocator.isValidLocale("fr_RU")>

<cfif ok>

       <cfoutput>

       <b><h2>Not your grandmother's geoLocator Remote</h2></b>

       <hr align="left" width="30%">

       <b>geoLocator</b> := Initialized plenty fine.

       <br>

       <b>ip address</b> := #ipAddress#

       <br>

       <b>browser http_accept_language</b> := #cgi.HTTP_ACCEPT_LANGUAGE#

       <br>

       <b>This locale from geoLocator</b> := #thisLocale#

       <br>

       <b>This country (2 letter code) from geoLocator</b> := #thisCountry#

       <br>

       <b>This language (2 letter code) from geoLocator</b> := #thisLanguage#

       <br>

       <b>This country from geoLocator</b> := #thisC#

       <br>

       <b>This language from geoLocator</b> := #thisL#

       <br>

       <b>Test fr_RU as valid locale</b> := #yesnoFormat(bLocaleValid)#

       </cfoutput>

       <br>

       <table cellspacing="1" cellpadding="1" width="300" height="210">

       <tr>

       <td valign="top" title="Flash World Map">

       <OBJECT classid="clsid:D27CDB6E-AE6D-11cf-96B8-444553540000"

        codebase="http://download.macromedia.com/pub/shockwave/cabs/flash/swflash.cab#version=6,0,0,0"

        WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="200" id="world" ALIGN="">

        <PARAM NAME=movie VALUE="world.swf">

        <PARAM NAME=quality VALUE=high>

        <cfoutput><PARAM NAME='Flashvars' VALUE='country=#thisCountry#&colover=FFCC00&colsel=FF0000'></cfoutput>

        <PARAM NAME=bgcolor VALUE=#66CCFF>

        <EMBED src="world.swf" quality=high bgcolor=#66CCFF WIDTH="300" HEIGHT="200" NAME="world" ALIGN=""

        TYPE="application/x-shockwave-flash" PLUGINSPAGE="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"></EMBED>

       </OBJECT>

       </td>

       </tr>

       <tr>

       <td style="{font-size : 9px;}">flash map provided by <a href="mailto:eric.mauviere@emc3.fr" style="{font-size : 9px;}">eric mauviere</a></td>

       </tr>

       </table>

<cfelse>

       Oops, poop hit the fan.

</cfif>

[BKBK]

Roomdu wrote:

Anyways, I found this project. I implemented it , it detects my location correctly (US). However for my friend in Germany it is returning an empty string for Country.

It may just be that the program returns a blank for certain IPs.  Broaden the test of your code. Collect a list of IPs situated in Germany and, for each, print out the value of

geoLocator.showCountry(ipAddress)