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On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:10:53 Liviu Andronic wrote: |
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> Hello everyone, |
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> Is there a way to make Opera or Firefox believe that I am located in |
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> the UK? I am using (on a regular basis) the following environment |
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> variables. |
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> LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 |
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> LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 |
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> Nonetheless, it seems to make no difference to either browser. Maybe |
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> someone knows exactly how does BBC, or Google and other sites |
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> proposing their web pages in your local language, determine your |
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> location? For example, when accessing |
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> http://www.all-nettools.com/toolbox,net , it indicates me immediately |
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> and correctly from what country I am accessing the site. When I enter |
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> my IP address in the "CountryWhois" box, it is unable to identify my |
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> coordonates. |
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I doubt anything about their verification happens from the browser, it would |
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all be IP based. So bounce through a proxy in the UK. |
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- Noven |
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