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pyr0t3chnician
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| #1 cURL opinion on 01/01/1970 00:00 | |
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http://maxmind.com has a awesome IP location database. They let you try it for free, but you have to pay to have it. They have a free "Lite" database with less features, but you have to download it and install it, and they don't let you just link to their database that I know of.
Like I said, you can try it for free on their main page. As far as I know, you can try it as many times as you want. EDIT: You can do it 25 times a day (which I think would be plenty) I am thinking, why not cURL that site and post the IP address then grab the info. Is this legal/ethical? Also I am doing this for a plugin for Joomla, so would you recommend it? 
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mrdotkom
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| #2 on 01/01/1970 00:00 | |
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To answer let me suggest a couple things
Legally, if its free and online and anyone can use it, how can it be illegal? Ethically, as long as you provide some kind of advertisement claiming it is NOT your tool and giving people credit its fine. You might have to put on a captcha to keep the site from being spammed with your requests but yeah otherwise it should be fine Freaky Transvestite Paradox = FTP |
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swiftnomad
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| #3 on 01/01/1970 00:00 | |
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dude, i can see where you're going with this.. :D awesome.
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Grindordie
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| #4 on 01/01/1970 00:00 | |
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I could see them having a problem with it since you would be wasting their bandwidth - specially if you get their suspicion by requesting 25 a day.
These companies make it free but, they also provide advertising to their products on the site, if you use a script to provide their service without their ads - you could get in trouble. But, like mdk said, if its free, there shouldn't be a problem with it. I would check their Terms and Conditions for the services they offer before you start developing (unless its for personal use, then don't even bother) |
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pyr0t3chnician
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| #5 on 01/01/1970 00:00 | |
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I found a new site(http://www.ipaddresslocation.org/ip-address-locator.php). No limit on searches, just as much info. No disclaimers or anything about me linking or using the info. Its a little more parsing on my part. I figure I will make it optional, and when enabled, the user will get a link to the website where the info came from. I will just have to keep tabs on it to make sure those people don't update their site too much or I will have to reparse the info.
@swift - Its going to be bad ass! Its fully functional, just making the non-necesary addons to make it something special.
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