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by there 5590 days ago
if you need geolocation information through javascript, you can use maxmind's free one:

http://j.maxmind.com/app/geoip.js

2 comments

Outputting javascript code instead of something parseable (json probably) seems like a very bad idea. Are you really willing to eval code from a site outside your control?

A simple line-by-line regex loop should be enough to parse this though.

This, I think:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/JSON#JSONP

Under the same origin policy, a web page served from server1.example.com cannot normally connect to or communicate with a server other than server1.example.com. An exception is the HTML <script> element.

This is perfect. I've been looking for an easy way to find user location (city, state) based on IP address, without having to scrape a IP lookup service for it.

Great find!