Geographic IP Address

[former_member634278]

Hello,

Is there any tool on Hybris for Geographic IP address to determine customer's IP address and forward him/her to right store that related to that IP address country.

Thanks

[former_member387866 · Accepted solution]

Excellent Question Saleh,

As far as I'm aware, and what the wiki tells me, this is not supported out of the box.

The Store Locator Tutorial seems to use the Customer Account Address as the location, then it gets the GPS coordinates from this.

But there are web services that can do this for you, http://freegeoip.net/ is one. Make the REST call and parse the country from the result.

Hopefully this will give you a starting point,
Luke

[former_member634278 · Accepted solution]

Thank you for this tool .. Anyway , So the detection will be from the proxy server and then it will forward the request or it will be from Hybris server .

[former_member387866 · Accepted solution]

I'd do the detection at the top of the homepage (index.html), then redirect the user to the correct site, if needed.

[Former Member]

Hmmm, I wouldn't be using a free web service for a critical piece of functionality to be honest. There are clearly no SLAs in place so performance and stability could be an issue and limit on the number of transactions per hour.

Maxmind is a commercial product that we've used on a number of projects that works well. You can use a web service or run a local database.

[former_member387866]

Good view point, some thing I didn't consider, the availability of the service.