Re: Counter triggered on download

[Camilo Gonzalez]

I would solve this by using the link to invoke a Perl script that would 
trip a counter and serve up the PDF document, shift-click be damned. Who 
uses shift-click anyway?

Merrill Oakes wrote:

I have a link to a PDF file on a web page.  I want to count how many 
times that someone clicks on the link (i.e. downloads the PDF).  The 
easy way (at least for me) would be to make them go to a "download 
page" first, and I could put a counter in the page, BUT this requires 
an extra step for the user.

SO, is there any way to:#1. monitor how many a times a file has been 
downloaded, or maybe #2. have them click on a link (that is really a 
cgi script, that then increments the counter then starts the 
download/open of the PDF?  Of course this last method will disable the 
ability to do a "shift-click" to download the doc.

Thoughts, or pointers would be appreciated,

Thanks,
MO.
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