"HttpError: NetFail" when trying to get server region via HttpService

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Is there no way to get accurate server country&city region anymore? i tried different built-in roblox studio ip apis like “https://ip-api.com/json/”, “http://ipconfig.io/json/” and even “https://ip-retrive.glitch.me/?gameid=” which all resulted in same “HttpError: NetFail” error in output.
im aware that there are external ip APIs but unfortunately im not planning on spending money just to get knowledge of temporary server’s location

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Hello, Staplegun.

Could you please show your code? It seems to work for me.

My code:

function GetServerRegion()
	local http = game:GetService("HttpService")
	local serverinfo = http:JSONDecode(http:GetAsync("http://ip-api.com/json/"))
	return serverinfo
end

print(GetServerRegion())

Output value: Netherlands (relatively accurate)

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my code isn’t the problem here, trust me

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Make sure your game is published and has HTTP service enabled.

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I’m pretty sure that api/url doesnt work for roblox, u have to use another one
or make your own. I had to make my own.

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could you please tell me how did you make your own API if it isn’t a secret?

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it is published, and i already had http service enabled in security tab. otherwise it would ask me to enable it in output as an error…

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Have you tried it outside of studio? Maybe ask one of your friends to test it. It works fine for me.

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