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

Thu May 29 15:55:47 UTC 2014

Calling https://geoiplookup.wikimedia.org/ from JS would make the entire
thing slower?
Also I wonder if its capable of taking the load

On Thu, May 29, 2014 at 8:49 PM, Jeremy Baron <jeremy at tuxmachine.com> wrote:

> 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
>
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Cheers,

Nischay Nahata
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