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Paul_Wade_69753
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Jun 27, 2014

For Geolocation information to be analysed, what licenses and modules do I need enabled?

A customer requires that Geolocation information be captured and logged on the F5, as only anonymised information allowed to the back end server farm. To take advantage of the geolocation capabilitie...
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Arie
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Jun 27, 2014

Article: F5 Friday: I am in UR HTTP Headers Sharing Geolocation Data

 

Customers can now obtain a EULA waiver which permits certain off-box use cases. This allows customers to use the geolocation data included with BIG-IP in applications residing on a server or servers in an “off box” fashion. For example, location information may be embedded into an HTTP header or similar and then sent on to the server for it to perform some geo-location specific action.

 

Customers (existing or new) can contact their F5 sales representative to start the process of obtaining the waiver necessary to enable the legal use of this data in an off-box fashion.