On Thu, 18 Oct 2007 17:10:53 Liviu Andronic wrote: > Hello everyone, > Is there a way to make Opera or Firefox believe that I am located in > the UK? I am using (on a regular basis) the following environment > variables. > LC_ALL=en_GB.UTF-8 > LANG=en_GB.UTF-8 > Nonetheless, it seems to make no difference to either browser. Maybe > someone knows exactly how does BBC, or Google and other sites > proposing their web pages in your local language, determine your > location? For example, when accessing > http://www.all-nettools.com/toolbox,net , it indicates me immediately > and correctly from what country I am accessing the site. When I enter > my IP address in the "CountryWhois" box, it is unable to identify my > coordonates. > I doubt anything about their verification happens from the browser, it would all be IP based. So bounce through a proxy in the UK.
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