| Title: | Internet Tools |
| Notice: | Report ALL NETSCAPE Problems directly to [email protected] . rnet? Read note 448.L for beginner information. |
| Moderator: | teco.mro.dec.com::tecotoo.mro.dec.com::mayer |
| Created: | Fri Jun 25 1993 |
| Last Modified: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Last Successful Update: | Fri Jun 06 1997 |
| Number of topics: | 4714 |
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A local customer has asked me a question that I couldn't answer. While
that is not surprizing in and of itself, I knew I could get an answer
here.
This customer is thinking about a WEB presence. They are an
international company, but this group is a US only marketing group.
They would like to be able to mention fares (prices), and want to know
if it is possible to restrict access to US only viewers. Off of the
top I said No, but my gut says I'm mistaken. Eventually they would
want to market in other countries and the same question would hold
true, can they restrict specific pages to specific country domains?
I would appreciate any clarity, so I can go back and not look quite so
stupid. BTW this is a casual conversation with a client, and they know
that I am not really supposed to know this.
Thanks,
Joe
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| 4494.1 | CFSCTC::SMITH | Tom Smith MRO1-3/D12 dtn 297-4751 | Sat Feb 22 1997 12:57 | 13 | |
Yes, it's possible to restrict or direct access based on particular
domains and/or particular IP addresses/networks, but that does not,
unfortunately, actually allow you to discriminate by geography. The
.com domain, for example, is, in fact, international even though it is
formally a U.S. domain. Also, because of firewalls and proxies, the
apparent client may be half-way around the world from the actual
client. Someone in Digital Japan, for example, may appear to another
company's server as a client in California or Massachusetts as a result
of having passed through www-proxy.wherever.dec.com, even if the server
knew how to translate www-proxy.wherever.dec.com into a geographical
location.
-Tom
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| 4494.2 | PCBUOA::BAYJ | Jim, Portables | Mon Feb 24 1997 12:55 | 10 | |
With the caveats mentioned in .1, I have a CGI book that contains a
sample program demonstrating how to customize the greeting in a web
page based on the domain name ("Hello", "G'day", "Yes sir!", etc.).
Using that technique, you could selectively delete content based on
where you are *told* the client is coming from. Its just not 100%
reliable.
jeb
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| 4494.3 | teco.mro.dec.com::tecotoo.mro.dec.com::mayer | Danny Mayer | Mon Feb 24 1997 14:50 | 8 | |
> With the caveats mentioned in .1, I have a CGI book that contains a
> sample program demonstrating how to customize the greeting in a web
> page based on the domain name ("Hello", "G'day", "Yes sir!", etc.).
>
On what basis are they making that decision?
Danny
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| 4494.4 | CFSCTC::SMITH | Tom Smith MRO1-3/D12 dtn 297-4751 | Mon Feb 24 1997 15:25 | 7 | |
re: .-1
I suppose that, while not _completely_ accurate, "G'day" would be the
right response for "mumble.au" at least 95% of the time. You might hit
100% with "Yes sir!" and "mumble.mil", at least in spirit. :-)
-Tom
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| 4494.5 | PCBUOA::BAYJ | Jim, Portables | Tue Feb 25 1997 11:31 | 6 | |
Re .3
Yeah, .4.
jeb
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