Testing from outside of the country

[kante]

I have a PHP application that uses a DB IP locate service.

Well i display some info, only if the spcified ID parsed by the service is from a countries set.

How can i test the application is working fine, without callin' somone outside of my country to please go and visit that url and tell me if he's seeing the info on th ewebsite or not?
(possibly without ip spoofing technique too :-) )

[big_nerd]

kante,

If you take a look into an Anonymous Web Surfing application (Search for "Anonymity Online") you will find one.

There is an application which uses proxies setup by users to allow you to use their IP when browsing.

But I will leave you with this warning: DO NOT CHECK ANY PRIVATE INFO WITH THIS ON! It is an application that is installed and can be uninstalled easily, but because your data is going through other people's computers (while ON and installed) it is possible for it to be sniffed and information taken from it.

However, it will avoid the call to someone within another country. It is also pretty slow.

I hope this helps.

[kante]

thanks for the secret words. Google will make the rest.
And for the advice.

Is this the only chance?

[NogDog]

Another option is to insert some test code, either into the PHP code or possibly at the web server level, in order to insert test IP values. Something real simple would be:

<?php
define('IPTEST', true);  // change to false for live version
if(is_defined('IPTEST') and IPTEST == true)
{
   if(is_readable('ip.txt'))
   {
      $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] = trim(file_get_contents('ip.txt'));
   }
}
// rest of script
?>

Then just edit ip.txt to contain whatever IP address you want to test, and ensure the define() statement is there and setting IPTEST to true. (You could then either set it to false or just comment it out when in "live" mode.)

[kante]

NogDog;10934269 wrote:

Another option is to insert some test code, either into the PHP code or possibly at the web server level, in order to insert test IP values. Something real simple would be:

<?php
define('IPTEST', true);  // change to false for live version
if(is_defined('IPTEST') and IPTEST == true)
{
   if(is_readable('ip.txt'))
   {
      $_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'] = trim(file_get_contents('ip.txt'));
   }
}
// rest of script
?>

Then just edit ip.txt to contain whatever IP address you want to test, and ensure the define() statement is there and setting IPTEST to true. (You could then either set it to false or just comment it out when in "live" mode.)

thaks but this is not what i wanted.

anyway i guess it's ok.
Anonymity it is the only solution to see if it is working for real. Unless u can travel abroad to check if it is working :-D