Get geolocation server side.

[M8KWR1]

I have the following script to get the long and lat (after prompt, and they say ok), and it populates 2 hidden fields.

What I have trying to do is get this to server side so I have use the information a db query. I have tried to use a ontextchange event, but no event is firing!

Any assistance would be great - and thanks for looking.

                   <script>
                                $(document).ready(function () {
                                    if (true) { 

                                        navigator.geolocation.getCurrentPosition(getCoords);
                                    }
                                    else {

                                    }

                                    function getCoords(position) {

                                        $('#mobLat').val(position.coords.latitude);
                                        $('#mobLong').val(position.coords.longitude);
                                    }
                                });
        </script>

 

[ChrisHirst]

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[M8KWR1]

I do believe this question is more relevant to .net, as I want the longitude and latitude from the javascript to be accessible in my .net server side code.

If a java person does not have .net experience then surely they would not be able to assist me!

 

[jbenson001]

You can't get the geolocation info serverside. If you did, it would be the geolocaiton of the server, not the client machine.
What you can do, is run your code on the client, as it is, then pass the lat,lng to a handler(ashx) on the server side. You would call the handler with an AJAX call.
This is very simple to do using JQuery.

 

[gk53]

if you need geo location of your client you can use javascript and save location into hidden fields, and get tham from code behind

 

[ChrisHirst]

ou can't get the geolocation info serverside

Actually you can, from the server variables REMOTE_ADDR which has the IP of the requesting user agent

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[jbenson001]

Yes, but that is not the lat and lng which is geo location, IP is not geolocation