Allow Anonymous Commenting

2 files changed, 35 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/middleware/tz.py b/middleware/tz.py
new file mode 100644
index 00000000..4aa3087a
--- /dev/null
+++ b/middleware/tz.py
@@ -0,0 +1,32 @@
+import requests
+
+
+# make sure you add `TimezoneMiddleware` appropriately in settings.py
+class TimezoneMiddleware(object):
+    """
+    Middleware to properly handle the users timezone
+    """
+
+    def __init__(self, get_response):
+        self.get_response = get_response
+
+    def __call__(self, request):
+        # get the user's timezone from the cookie
+        user_timezone = request.COOKIES.get('user_timezone')
+
+        if not user_timezone:
+            x_forwarded_for = request.META.get('HTTP_X_FORWARDED_FOR')
+            
+            if x_forwarded_for:
+                remote_ip = x_forwarded_for.split(',')[0]
+            else:
+                remote_ip = request.META.get('REMOTE_ADDR')
+        
+            geo_data = requests.get(f'http://ip-api.com/json/{remote_ip}').json()
+            user_timezone = geo_data['timezone']
+
+            if user_timezone:
+                response = self.get_response(request)
+                response.set_cookie('user_timezone', user_timezone, max_age=31536000)
+                return response
+            return self.get_response(request)
diff --git a/middleware/uuidmiddleware.py b/middleware/uuidmiddleware.py
index fc97cd58..bf920718 100644
--- a/middleware/uuidmiddleware.py
+++ b/middleware/uuidmiddleware.py
@@ -1,6 +1,8 @@
 import uuid
-from django.core.cache import cache
+
 from django.conf import settings
+from django.core.cache import cache
+
 
 class UserUUIDMiddleware:
     # assign a uuid to the user if they don't have one