I check too many sites for free IP details provides, But i didn't get a good one. finally i got a url "http://ipinfodb.com/" thats work fine and get correct details including City, State, Country, Latitude, Longitude, Timezone and more from IP Address.
The request url is "http://ipinfodb.com/ip_query.php?ip=IPADDR" . Response comes in XML format. using xml deserialize i deserialize the response.
Below image shown the XML response
To get IPAddress of a client machine using ASP.NET is
string ipAddress = HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress;
Main classes
IPLocater class contains all properties of XML Response.this class is used for desirialization.
[XmlRootAttribute(ElementName = "Response", IsNullable = false)]
public class IPLocator
{
private string longitude;
public string Longitude
{
get { return longitude; }
set { longitude = value; }
}
private string latitude;
public string Latitude
{
get { return latitude; }
set { latitude = value; }
}
private string zip;
public string Zip
{
get { return zip; }
set { zip = value; }
}
private string ip;
public string IP
{
get { return ip; }
set { ip = value; }
}
}
After deserialization IPLocater class bind All properties of requested IP Address.
Binding Class is return IPLocater class.
Code of IPDetals Class
public class IPDetails
{
public IPLocator GetData(string ipAddress)
{
IPLocator ipLoc = new IPLocator();
try
{
string path = "http://ipinfodb.com/ip_query.php?ip=" + ipAddress;
WebClient client = new WebClient();
string[] eResult = client.DownloadString(path).ToString().Split(',');
if(eResult.Length>0)
ipLoc = (IPLocator)Deserialize(eResult[0].ToString());
}
catch
{ }
return ipLoc;
}
//Desrialize XML String
private Object Deserialize(String pXmlizedString)
{
XmlSerializer xs = new XmlSerializer(typeof(IPLocator));
MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream(StringToUTF8ByteArray(pXmlizedString));
XmlTextWriter xmlTextWriter = new XmlTextWriter(memoryStream, Encoding.UTF8);
return xs.Deserialize(memoryStream);
}
//String to UTF8ByteArray
private Byte[] StringToUTF8ByteArray(String pXmlString)
{
UTF8Encoding encoding = new UTF8Encoding();
Byte[] byteArray = encoding.GetBytes(pXmlString);
return byteArray;
}
}
Implementation
string ipAddress = HttpContext.Current.Request.UserHostAddress;
IPDetails ipDetails=new IPDetails ();
IPLocator ipLocater = ipDetails.GetData(ipAddress);
Response.Write(ipLocater.CountryName);
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