They answered my question, and the only problem is that now their API implements a rate limit.<div>Quoting their website[1]:</div><div><br></div><div><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: sans-serif; font-size: 13px; color: rgb(68, 68, 68); line-height: 19px; ">We do not have a specific daily limit but queries that are at a rate faster than 2 per second will be put in "queue". If you stay below 2 queries/second everything will be normal. If you go over the limit, you will still get an answer <strong style="margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; border-top-width: 0px; border-right-width: 0px; border-bottom-width: 0px; border-left-width: 0px; border-style: initial; border-color: initial; outline-width: 0px; outline-style: initial; outline-color: initial; font-size: 13px; vertical-align: baseline; background-image: initial; background-attachment: initial; background-origin: initial; background-clip: initial; background-color: transparent; background-position: initial initial; background-repeat: initial initial; ">for all queries</strong> but they will be slowed down to about 1 per second.</span></div>
<div><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px;"><br></span></font></div>So I need answers for the following questions before fixing it:<div>
1. Is that rate limit acceptable for the data engine? If it is not, we must look for another provider, but sadly I couldn't find anything usable (with a free XML API) yet.</div>
<div>2. If so, who should get the api key? The e.v., the data engine maintainer, me? They only request for name, email address and website(optional).<br><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>Vitor</div><div><br></div><div><div>
<font class="Apple-style-span" color="#444444" face="sans-serif"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; ">[1] </span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><a href="http://www.ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php">http://www.ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php</a></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="line-height: 19px; "><br>
</span></font><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 9:10 AM, Vitor Boschi <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:vitorboschi@gmail.com">vitorboschi@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex;">
Hi,<div><br></div><div><a href="http://ipinfodb.com/ip_query.php" target="_blank">http://ipinfodb.com/ip_query.php</a> is the actual address being used by the dataengine. The problem is that they started to require an API key in order to answer requests. The key is free, but I'm not sure that we can use it in our application, so I'm going to send an email to ask them and will reply here.</div>
<div><br></div><div>Vitor</div><div><br></div><div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div><div></div><div class="h5">On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 9:03 AM, Thomas Olsen <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:tanghus@gmail.com" target="_blank">tanghus@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
</div></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div><div></div><div class="h5"><div>On Thursday 25 November 2010 10:45:09 Artur de Souza wrote:<br>
> Hello :)<br>
><br>
> It seems that the "ip location tools" service does not provide the<br>
> same API as before.<br>
> So the page that we are using:<br>
><br>
> <a href="http://iplocationtools.com/ip_query.php" target="_blank">http://iplocationtools.com/ip_query.php</a><br>
<br>
</div>This could be used instead:<br>
<br>
<a href="http://ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php" target="_blank">http://ipinfodb.com/ip_location_api.php</a><br>
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I don't have any build environment setup as my HW is too low end to even try to build anything :-/<br>
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