Maxmind GeoIP City Module

[Igor Sysoev]

On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 11:29:02AM -0400, Jim Ohlstein wrote:

> Igor Sysoev wrote:
> >On Sat, Jul 18, 2009 at 12:53:30AM -0400, Jim Ohlstein wrote:
> >
> >  
> >>Igor Sysoev wrote:
> >>    
> >>>On Tue, Jul 07, 2009 at 12:51:41PM +0100, Phillip Oldham wrote:
> >>>
> >>> 
> >>>      
> >>>>We're in need of a GeoIP module which works with the current 
> >>>>development branch of nginx and can resolve an IP to City-level using 
> >>>>Maxmind's GeoIP Database (the .dat files). We use nginx extensively but 
> >>>>don't have experience in C to develop such a module in-house. Are there 
> >>>>any module developers on the list who would be interested in such a 
> >>>>project?
> >>>>
> >>>>We're flexible regarding the funding of development for such a module, 
> >>>>and also flexible on whether the finshed module is open-sourced and 
> >>>>released back to the community.
> >>>>
> >>>>If anyone is interested please feel free to mail me off-list with any 
> >>>>thoughts/costs/etc.
> >>>>   
> >>>>        
> >>>The module is in the attached patch.
> >>> 
> >>>      
> >>Can you include the module with future distributions?
> >>    
> >
> >Yes, I will add in 0.8.6. I post it to know if other variables are needed ?
> >  
> Thank you Igor, and thanks to those who provided the funding for 
> enhancing the module. :)

The module was created without funding :) It takes just 3 hours.

> I'm assuming (so correct me if I'm wrong) that $geoip_region would be a 
> US state, Canadian province, German state, etc.

Yes, see http://www.maxmind.com/app/fips10_4


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