Introduction

To meet the laws and regulations of different countries or regions, the Agora RTC SDK supports geofencing. After enabling geofencing, the Agora SDK only connects to Agora servers within the specified region.

For example, if you specify North America as the region for connection, the SDK only connects to Agora servers in North America. When there is no available server in North American, the SDK throws an error instead of connecting to servers in another region.

Implementation

By default, the SDK connects to nearby Agora servers. You can call AgoraRTC.setArea to specify the region for connection. Choose either of the following ways to specify the region for connection:

• Set the areaCode parameter to specify only one region for connection.
• Set the areaCode parameter to specify a large region and the excludedArea parameter to specify a small region. The region for connection is the large region excluding the small region. You can only specify the large region as "GLOBAL".

After specifying the region, the SDK connects to the Agora servers within that region.

The supported areaCode include:

• ASIA: Asia, excluding Mainland China
• CHINA: China
• EUROPE: Europe
• GLOBAL: Global
• INDIA: India
• JAPAN: Japan
• NORTH_AMERICA: North America

Sample code

// Specify the region for connection as North America
AgoraRTC.setArea({
  areaCode:"NORTH_AMERICA"
})

// Exclude Mainland China from the regions for connection.
AgoraRTC.setArea({
  areaCode:"GLOBAL",
  excludedArea:"CHINA"
})

Considerations

If a firewall is deployed in your network environment, ensure that you whitelist certain domains, allow all IP addresses, and open certain firewall ports according to Firewall Requirements.