[Labs-l] Full Text Reference Tool: Approved exposing of ip addresses to an external API

Thu May 29 15:19:25 UTC 2014

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 3:16 PM, Marc-André Pelletier
<mpelletier at wikimedia.org> wrote:
> On 05/29/2014 10:49 AM, Jeremy Baron wrote:
>> I'm interested in learning why the IP is needed at all though. It
>> seems to me that doing it client-side may negate the original purpose
>> of sending it? i.e. it can now be spoofed trivially
>
> If I understood correctly, the point is to provide libraries local to
> the asking user as the default search basis.

Ah, in that case maybe better to use one of the other values from
https://geoiplookup.wikimedia.org/ and you could also support html5
geolocation.

But maybe the OCLC side is currently only able to support location as
a function of IP.

-Jeremy