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I have an ASP.NET website written in C#.

On this site I need to automatically show a start page based on the user's location.

Can I get name of user's city based on the IP address of the user ?
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Updated 5-Jan-17 15:51pm

You need reverse geo-coding API based on IP address. Check these:
Get user location by IP address[^]
Getting ipaddress and location of every user visiting your website[^]
 
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bjdestiny 25-Nov-13 1:35am    
I liked this... Bookmarked it & +5..
ridoy 25-Nov-13 12:55pm    
thank you,:)
C#
using System;
using System.Data;
using System.Configuration;
using System.Collections;
using System.Web;
using System.Web.Security;
using System.Web.UI;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls;
using System.Web.UI.WebControls.WebParts;
using System.Web.UI.HtmlControls;
using System.Web;
using System.Text;
using System.IO;
using System.Xml;
using System.Net;
using System.Net.Sockets;

public partial class _Default : System.Web.UI.Page 
{
    protected void Page_Load(object sender, EventArgs e)
    {
        //this line is to check the clien ip address from the server itself
        string IP = "";

        string strHostName = "";
        strHostName = System.Net.Dns.GetHostName();

        IPHostEntry ipEntry = System.Net.Dns.GetHostEntry(strHostName);

        IPAddress[] addr = ipEntry.AddressList;

        IP = addr[2].ToString();

        //Initializing a new xml document object to begin reading the xml file returned
        XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();           
        doc.Load("http://www.freegeoip.net/xml");       
        XmlNodeList nodeLstCity = doc.GetElementsByTagName("City");     
        IP = ""+ nodeLstCity[0].InnerText + "<br>" + IP;
        Response.Write(IP);
        //this is my header that I love
        
    }
}

[Edit:] Code block added
 
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Codes DeCodes 26-Mar-14 7:08am    
i also needed this in my web application..i tried it.. as this code reaches http://www.freegeoip.net/xml, it shows me error "Unable to connect to the remote server".. i typed the address in my browser http://www.freegeoip.net was opened and address of my city was opened.. now as i typed http://www.freegeoip.net/xml/(myIP) in browser , "RD Reserved" is shown... any help in what is happening??
veerendrasingh 19-Apr-16 8:43am    
is http://www.freegeoip.net website is trustable?
http://freegeoip.net/json/[^]

Request to this url and parse json to get user's country,city,IP ....
 
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Even a simpler solution then you have implemented
C#
string ip = Server.HtmlEncode(Request.UserHostAddress);

XmlDocument doc = new XmlDocument();

string getdetails= "http://www.freegeoip.net/xml/" + ip;

doc.Load(getdetails);

XmlNodeList nodeLstCity = doc.GetElementsByTagName("City");

string location = nodeLstCity[0].InnerText;
 
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veerendrasingh 19-Apr-16 8:43am    
http://www.freegeoip.net is not working...
Thanks7872 20-Apr-16 2:28am    
It was working in 2013 :-)
http://stackoverflow.com/questions/4327629/get-user-location-by-ip-address
 
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I think you had not searched for your problem in CP.
Anyway just visit This[^], This1[^] and This[^] links you will get your solution.
 
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Maddy selva 28-Nov-13 1:01am    
I have solved this my self!..
At timezoneapi.io you can request an IP address using cURL. It returns a few objects including location, timezone and datetime.

$curl https://timezoneapi.io/developers/ip-address


Returns
- Location including latitude / longitude
- timezone (time zone variables e.g. capital, currency, phone prefix, shortcodes etc.
- datetime (the date / time for the timezone when the request was made + lots of date / time variables).

Take a look here for API documentation:
IP address. Get users location, time zone and date/time details. - Timezone API[^]
 
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