On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 10:56:03AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote: >On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote: >>On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 04:43:00PM +0200, Lapo Luchini wrote: >>>As a mere curiosity: would be possible to nkow how many times the >>>packages are downloaded? (maybe grepping ftp/http logs) >>> >>>OK.. don't listen to me: of course the logs are on the mirrors =P >> >>I would love to know the answer to this, though. >> >>It would be nice (tm) if setup.exe could record download stats >>somewhere. But, then maybe that's a violation of privacy somehow. > >FWIW, every setup run makes an http connection to cygwin.com (to get >the mirror list). We could also have setup connect *after* the >download (completely optionally, of course), and report the mirrors >used plus some statistics (OS, packages downloaded, etc -- nothing more >revealing than would be in the browser HTTP headers or the cygcheck >output). We could have a prominent page asking whether the user allows >this (yeah, yeah, like we need yet another page in the setup sequence). >Just a wild idea...
That's kind of what I was thinking. I could generate a cgi script to run, if necessary but obviously it would need some kind of authentication to avoid abuse. Is there something like this out there somewhere? Hmm. Maybe I should add a counter to the mirrors page. cgf