OT: Site point to UK rather than US

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Is there something or somewhere I can chaneg in IE and FF so that a
website I browse to will "think" I am in the USA and not UK?
I keep typing the default www address but it insist on me going to the
UK site.
There is no international link or anything like that so I figure that
somehow it knows I'm in UK by some browser settings or my region from
the OS.
Using Win XP Home SP2, IE and FF2.
Thanks

 

[Toby A Inkster]

There is no international link or anything like that so I figure that
somehow it knows I'm in UK by some browser settings or my region from
the OS.

It's possible it's using your language preference in your browser (en_GB
vs en_US), but it's more likely it's using something like GeoIP to guess
your location from your IP address.

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[=?iso-8859-1?Q?Kim_Andr=E9_Aker=F8?=]

Is there something or somewhere I can chaneg in IE and FF so that a
website I browse to will "think" I am in the USA and not UK? I keep
typing the default www address but it insist on me going to the UK
site. There is no international link or anything like that so I
figure that somehow it knows I'm in UK by some browser settings or my
region from the OS. Using Win XP Home SP2, IE and FF2. Thanks

Although not HTML-related, I'll give you an answer.

It all depends on how the website is detecting (by underlying
server-side programming) your location; it's either detecting you by
your browser language setting or by your IP address.

If the website is using your browser's language setting, you can change
this in Internet Explorer by going to Internet Options and clicking the
"Languages" button (in the "General" tab). In Firefox (at least in
2.0), you can find this in settings -> Advanced -> General (tab) ->
"Select" under the "Language" heading. In other browser, you can look
around the main settings dialog and locate a setting for languages or
localization.

If it's using your IP address, you have a lot fewer options, but you
could try to locate a proxy based in USA for browsing the particular
site, and thereby fooling the website to think you're in the USA.

OTOH, if you recall setting your country at the website at a previous
visit, though, you'll only need to delete all cookies for that
particular domain to reset your settings with that website.

 

[J.O. Aho]

Is there something or somewhere I can chaneg in IE and FF so that a
website I browse to will "think" I am in the USA and not UK?
I keep typing the default www address but it insist on me going to the
UK site.
There is no international link or anything like that so I figure that
somehow it knows I'm in UK by some browser settings or my region from
the OS.

Use a proxy located in USA.