This is a pretty good method, but it is not so good because the visitors won't be able to use a Download manager to download the file. Or better said, they won't be able to resume the download.
I am not sure, I will be testing this soon, but maybe a solution for this problem could be specifying the Content-length of this file as a HTTP header. This way the browsers and the download managers will be able to send the "Range" HTTP header and the web server will accept it. But as I said, I am not sure yet. teddy.fcc.ro [EMAIL PROTECTED] ----- Original Message ----- From: "fliptop" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: "Merrill Oakes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2003 11:29 PM Subject: Re: Counter triggered on download On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 at 13:29, Merrill Oakes opined: MO:I have a link to a PDF file on a web page. I want to count how many MO:times that someone clicks on the link (i.e. downloads the PDF). The MO:easy way (at least for me) would be to make them go to a "download page" MO:first, and I could put a counter in the page, BUT this requires an extra MO:step for the user. MO: MO:SO, is there any way to:#1. monitor how many a times a file has been MO:downloaded, or maybe #2. have them click on a link (that is really a cgi MO:script, that then increments the counter then starts the download/open MO:of the PDF? Of course this last method will disable the ability to do a -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
