Go-based freegeoip.net now supports SSL for its API • Hacker News Board

Re: Go-based freegeoip.net now supports SSL for its API

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Post by ivanbrussik » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 6:15 PM UTC

NICE! I've been looking for something like this to interface with Piwik

Re: Go-based freegeoip.net now supports SSL for its API

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Post by slig » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 6:19 PM UTC

emptystacks wrote: post #9

For those unfamiliar, this free usage limit is much more relaxed than Google's Geocoder, which limits you to 2,500 free requests per day. https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/#...

Google's API is for a very different thing: it converts an address to a lat/long and vice-versa.

Re: Go-based freegeoip.net now supports SSL for its API

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Post by tlercher » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 6:21 PM UTC

No IPv6 support?

Re: Go-based freegeoip.net now supports SSL for its API

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Post by moatra » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 6:30 PM UTC

emptystacks wrote: post #9

For those unfamiliar, this free usage limit is much more relaxed than Google's Geocoder, which limits you to 2,500 free requests per day. https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/#...

Google offers three geocoders:

The first[1] converts ip to location, and allows 100 free queries per day.

The second[2] converts physical addresses to location as part of it maps JavaScript api, and is part of its 25,000 free requests/day.

The third[3] is its http version of geocoding, which also converts physical addresses to locations or visa-versa. This api has the 2,500 req/day limit.

[1]https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/business/ge...

[2]https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/javascript/...

[3]https://developers.google.com/maps/documentation/geocoding/

Re: Go-based freegeoip.net now supports SSL for its API

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Post by hgfischer » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 8:13 PM UTC

Nice job!! The source code is very well written!

Re: Go-based freegeoip.net now supports SSL for its API

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Post by cpeterso » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 8:19 PM UTC

tlercher wrote: post #13

No IPv6 support?

There's an open issue for IPv6 on GitHub: https://github.com/fiorix/freegeoip/issues/21

Re: Go-based freegeoip.net now supports SSL for its API

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Post by stock_toaster » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 8:19 PM UTC

fiorix, I am curious why you are using sqlite/redis as a store for the geoip data, instead of using cgo in conjunction with libGeoIP.

Was it to enable updates to the geoip data if you get corrections (crowdsourced or otherwise)?

Re: Go-based freegeoip.net now supports SSL for its API

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Post by manishsharan » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 8:28 PM UTC

Is this a REST API over Maxmind db ?

Re: Go-based freegeoip.net now supports SSL for its API

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 9:21 PM UTC

kyberias wrote: post #2

Why is it important what programming language was used in implementing a given web service+

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Re: Go-based freegeoip.net now supports SSL for its API

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Post by Aloisius » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 9:22 PM UTC

kyberias wrote: post #2

Why is it important what programming language was used in implementing a given web service+

Because anything that mentions Go gets more Karma?