Re:Show HN: Free and easy geoip API thanks to Cloudflare and...
by stephenr on Friday October 07, 2016 @02:50AM
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I know "negative" comments are discouraged for Show HN, but seriously who is using this type of thing? I'm really not sure I understand the point of things like this, besides "make every possible library/unix tool a service". What's next, "sprintf as a service"? Maybe just "println as a service". You make a request, and it returns the same string with "\n" appended.
The MaxMind GeoLite database will give you quite a lot more information than this does, with a single call to the library, and can be delivered as part of your main page response if necessary.
The MaxMind GeoLite database also isn't reliant on CloudFlare to work.
The MaxMind GeoLite database will give you quite a lot more information than this does, with a single call to the library, and can be delivered as part of your main page response if necessary.
The MaxMind GeoLite database also isn't reliant on CloudFlare to work.