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Get a User’s country in Sitecore using Sitecore GeoIP feature
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public string GetCountry() | |
{ | |
var country = Sitecore.Analytics.Tracker.Current.Interaction.GeoData.Country; | |
if(string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(country)) | |
{ | |
return GetCountryByIp(); | |
} | |
return country; | |
} | |
public string GetCountryByIp(string ipAddress = null) | |
{ | |
var country = string.Empty; | |
try | |
{ | |
// If IP address is not provided, get the IP address of the user. | |
ipAddress = string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(ipAddress) ? GetIpAddress() : ipAddress; | |
var geoIpManager = ServiceLocator.ServiceProvider.GetRequiredService<IGeoIpManager>(); | |
var geoIpFetchedData = geoIpManager?.GetGeoIpData(ipAddress); | |
if (geoIpFetchedData != null | |
&& geoIpFetchedData.Status == GeoIpFetchDataStatus.Fetched | |
&& geoIpFetchedData.WhoIsInformation != null) | |
{ | |
country = geoIpFetchedData.WhoIsInformation.Country; | |
} | |
} | |
catch (Exception) | |
{ | |
// Handle the exceptions | |
} | |
return country; | |
} | |
private string GetIpAddress() | |
{ | |
System.Web.HttpContext context = System.Web.HttpContext.Current; | |
// Sometimes, IP address will be present in the 'HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR' | |
string ipAddress = context.Request.ServerVariables["HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR"]; | |
if (!string.IsNullOrWhiteSpace(ipAddress)) | |
{ | |
string[] addresses = ipAddress.Split(','); | |
if (addresses.Length != 0) | |
{ | |
return addresses[0]; | |
} | |
} | |
// Can add several other ways to get the IP address if required including IPv6 format | |
// refer : https://stackoverflow.com/questions/19285957/how-to-get-the-public-ip-address-of-a-user-in-c-sharp | |
return context.Request.ServerVariables["REMOTE_ADDR"]; | |
} |
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