http://diveintohtml5.info/geolocation.html
I see geolocation. How does it work for a desktop computer? Is it just by IP address? On a desktop computer, I see it complains that the geolocation can not be determined in a browser. So it sounds like it does not just use IP addresses. How does geolocation work in this case?
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According to this, there is no easy way to tell the exact location of an IP address. So, when I visit Google Maps on my laptop from my home wifi, how does Google show me the exact location of my house ? What additional information does Google use to track me down ?
Instead of IP address geolocation, your browser might have WIFI geolocation enabled. It will pass the router MAC address to Google to find your house location. Google has a lot of Android device with GPS enabled to verify the location.
All i wanna do is spoof my geolocation, but the site I'm trying to reach Blocks any IP that is hosted so VPN's are out of picture as far as Geolocation spoofing is concerned I tried the developer tools on Chrome & Firefox but it doesn't work, the location on Browser leaks shows my real location. Is there anyway that i can do this ?
You may try Tor browser to protect your privacy. However, some websites do not support tor, so you may need to try and see if that works.
I have a back end application on grails that runs into my PC and I want to access to its information throuw my mobile, I used a Rest web server for connection.
I tested the connection using an emulator on my PC, I acceeded to the application using the ip adress 10.0.2.2 and it worked
but I did not find how to do it using my mobile, I tried my IP local adresse cause my mobile is connected to the same wifi network as my pc, but it did not work.
Any ideas? what ip adresse can I use in this case and how to get it?
Thanks in advance.
I guess it is an issue network option, I tried in a public wifi network and it worked.
I found out that sharing option was deactivated in my PC so I activate them but still it did not work :(
for some reasons I'm using putty as a socks proxy and in 99% of sites my real ip will be hidden from servers but there is an interesting issue in google websites , google can't detect my real IP but can detect my real location.
I'm wondering what kind of code google is using for detecting real location.
regards.
Google use the cookie to watch you regardless your IP
I want to make sure FireFox is using my local GPS on my machine (Dell Mini-10) for Location Aware browsing, not Google wi-fi triangulation services.
How would one make sure FireFox is using the GPS? To use GPS a driver or browser plugin (Loki?) I assume is needed to talk locally with Firefox and local hardware. Firefox config would need to be modified to point to a local URI?
1) type about:config in FireFox address line, 2) filter by "geo" and you will see:
List item
geo.enabled;true
geo.wifi.uri;https://www.google.com/loc/json
The "will it work" test would be working FireFox offline, and having a good GPS signal in the middle of nowhere (no wi-fi, radio turn off), Firefox should be able to report your GPS location.
How to?
Currently Firefox only uses the Google geolocation service to translate WiFi IDs and IP addresses into latitude and longitude coordinates, it doesn't support attached GPS.
It might be that Firefox will one day support multiple location providers including your own GPS or, since Firefox is open source, you could even write that code yourself. Also, the Location Platform on Windows 7 provides support for external GPS, so it may be that Internet Explorer or Firefox will one day use that Location Platform for W3C Geolocation requests. But neither can be configured to use your GPS today.