There’s a few APIs available which allow you to provide an IP address and to retrieve details back about it including it’s aproximate location. I was previously using ipstack for this but their free tier is pretty poor as it only provides 100 calls a month so I moved over Read more…
If you need to whitelist/blacklist an IP address for a client sometimes they’ll give you a subnet range rather than a list of IP addresses. If the site is being hosted in Azure then this is simple to do but if you need to check the IP address against the Read more…
If you want to get the physical location of a user on your site there’s a couple of different methods that you can use, you can either use their IP address to get an approximate location or you can request a more accurate location from them using the HTML geolocation Read more…
The ability to create your own middleware comes in pretty handy when creating MVC 6 APIs as it allows the inspection and processing of the requests/responses flowing into and out of the application. A few of the most useful ones I’ve used are below, a good guide to using middleware Read more…