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

stock_toaster wrote: post #17

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)?

Some of the early versions used libgeoip, but the database has changed many times over time; it started with MaxMind data, then switched to ipinfodb.com, then ip2location.com came into the mix, and currently is back to using MaxMind again with a few tweaks. The idea is to be free to change to whatever is more suitable whenever is necessary... Redis was initially used in the Python version (twisted+cyclone) to share usage quotas between multiple instances (one per cpu), and ended up in the Go version just because; actually, it could use a map or something, but I'd have to implement the ttl part... In other words, it's mostly for historical reasons.

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Post by fiorix » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 10:12 PM UTC

hgfischer wrote: post #15

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

Thank you!

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Post by fiorix » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 10:13 PM UTC

realrocker wrote: post #8

Well written code except around //Check Quota . Scope for better readability there. Thanks!

There's definitely room for improvement there, thanks for pointing that out.

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Post by fiorix » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 10:13 PM UTC

tlercher wrote: post #13

No IPv6 support?

Gotta spend some time on that...

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Post by disclosure » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 10:33 PM UTC

See also https://dazzlepod.com/ip/8.8.8.8.json w/o hard limit; replace 8.8.8.8 with any IP.

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Post by karolisd » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 11:35 PM UTC

Thanks, I've been looking for a Geo-IP API that supports both JSONP and SSL. Perfect.

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Post by fiorix » Sat, Jul 27, 2013, 11:41 PM UTC

karolisd wrote: post #28

Thanks, I've been looking for a Geo-IP API that supports both JSONP and SSL. Perfect.

;)

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Post by derfclausen » Sun, Jul 28, 2013, 12:34 AM 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/#...

Also note that Google's geocoder can only be used for results to be displayed on a Google map (mentioned in emptystacks's link, also section 10.1.1 (g): https://developers.google.com/maps/terms)