Server that determines your physical location by looking at headers sent from various hosting providers and content delivery networks (CDNs).
Try it with: AWS CloudFront | Bunny.net | Cloudflare | Fastly | Google AppEngine
Also see a more detailed comparison of geolocation providers
This application is just a simple app that shows various HTTP header values.
It is a trivial go application. go run *.go
should work. The real functionality is from the providers. Here are links and tips on how to set them up.
AWS CloudFront
Website | Official documentation | New detailed headers
CloudFront setup is not for the faint of heart. I managed to get it done in the end, but it involved a lot of fiddling. The rough steps are:
- Create a custom caching policy with the
Cloudfront-Viewer-*
headers - Create an origin request policy with the
Cloudfront-Viewer-*
headers - Create the distribution with these policies, making sure all the infinite number of other options are correct
Good luck!
Bunny.net
Very easy to setup: Add a pull zone pointing to your server. Bunny.net fills in headers for state and country.
Cloudflare
Website | Official documentation
Very easy to setup: just make sure you have enabled the CloudFlare proxy in your Cloudflare DNS settings. The little cloud has to be orange:
Fastly
Website | Official documentation
You need to configure each header.
Fastly's free tier only allows http for custom domains. If you need https, you either have to pay or use the Fastly domain .global.ssl.fastly.net
.
Google AppEngine
Website | Official documentation
No special setup required, but your app has to be running on Google AppEngine.
Contributions are welcome! If you know of any other similar CDNs/services, let me know & I will add them in!
There is a simple JSON/JSONP API that is free for light, non-commercial use. This is such a trivial application that you should run your own copy (or make your own version) for anything serious. Both AppEngine and Cloudflare have generous free plans (which is what I'm using).
Send a callback
parameter to get JSONP instead of JSON.
GNU Affero General Public License v3.0
- togo
go run github.com/flazz/togo --pkg=main --name=faviconIco --input=assets/favicon.ico