How do you change your apparent country of origin to test a site?

Question

I want to be able to set my country of origin - does this involve testing through a proxy, or is there something that can be set else where?

Solution 1

I would use TOR for this purpose. That way you are sure you are hitting the site from a different country.

Solution 2

Depends on what do you want to test against. If it is a GeoIP system, you'd need to get yourself a proxy in another location or otherwise use a different network. If it is the HTTP content negotiation headers you can change them in the browser configuration.

Comments

[willasaywhat]

Only issue with this is I don't think you get to choose the destination node. TOR is a great system though.

[tvanfosson]

This only works, under Abyss Knight's condition, if the site is doing detection via IP. If it is doing language-based detection it won't help as TOR will just pass those HTTP headers on.