Can anyone help please
Hi everyone, I have to make the tracking of users who follow links to external sites possible, preferably indicating in specific logfiles when a new browser is opened for linking to external sites. We have tried proxy solutions, modifying Apache core modules and are considering scanning and parsing our Html on the fly. I understand that uri.c could be modified or changes could be made to the .htaccess file. The problem is it has to be fast and transparant, does anyone have any ideas??? Thanks in advance Steve Smith
Re: Can anyone help please
Randal covered off-site link tracking in his web techniques column: http://www.webtechniques.com/archives/1998/05/perl/ AFAIK - there is no way to know for sure that a new browser window has been opened. You could try checking the referrer field, which is typically blank when a new window is opened, but as other threads on this list have commented, depending on the referrer field for anything is unreliable because browser handling of referrers is inconsistent and some proxies destroy it altogether. HTH, Simon Wilcox. From "Smith, Stephen (ELS)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date 20 February 2001Hi everyone, I have to make the tracking of users who follow links to external sites possible, preferably indicating in specific logfiles when a new browser is opened for linking to external sites. We have tried proxy solutions, modifying Apache core modules and are considering scanning and parsing our Html on the fly. I understand that uri.c could be modified or changes could be made to the .htaccess file. The problem is it has to be fast and transparant, does anyone have any ideas??? Thanks in advance Steve Smith __ This document should only be read by those persons to whom it is addressed and is not intended to be relied upon by any person without subsequent written confirmation of its contents. Accordingly, our company disclaim all responsibility and accept no liability (including in negligence) for the consequences for any person acting, or refraining from acting, on such information prior to the receipt by those persons of subsequent written confirmation. If you have received this E-mail message in error, please notify us immediately by telephone. Please also destroy and delete the message from your computer. Any form of reproduction, dissemination, copying, disclosure, modification, distribution and/or publication of this E-mail message is strictly prohibited.
Re: Can anyone help please
More details please. Are you referring to an intranet where your users are inside and you want to track them (cuz you talk about being able to control their proxy?) or are you talking about some other scenario? At 10:24 AM 2/20/01 +, Smith, Stephen (ELS) wrote: >Hi everyone, > >I have to make the tracking of users who follow links to external sites >possible, preferably indicating in specific logfiles when a new browser is >opened for linking to external sites. > >We have tried proxy solutions, modifying Apache core modules and are >considering scanning and parsing our Html on the fly. > >I understand that uri.c could be modified or changes could be made to the >.htaccess file. > >The problem is it has to be fast and transparant, does anyone have any >ideas??? > >Thanks in advance > > > >Steve Smith __ Gunther Birznieks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) eXtropia - The Web Technology Company http://www.extropia.com/
RE: Can anyone help please
Gunther, The scenario is we have a corporate website which allow freelance maintainers to product branded areas, as those arease are not administered our apache server must modify their html pages on the fly and open a new browser window whilst logging to a distinct log file. More details please. Are you referring to an intranet where your users are inside and you want to track them (cuz you talk about being able to control their proxy?) or are you talking about some other scenario? At 10:24 AM 2/20/01 +, Smith, Stephen (ELS) wrote: >Hi everyone, > >I have to make the tracking of users who follow links to external sites >possible, preferably indicating in specific logfiles when a new browser is >opened for linking to external sites. > >We have tried proxy solutions, modifying Apache core modules and are >considering scanning and parsing our Html on the fly. > >I understand that uri.c could be modified or changes could be made to the >.htaccess file. > >The problem is it has to be fast and transparant, does anyone have any >ideas??? > >Thanks in advance > > > >Steve Smith __ Gunther Birznieks ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) eXtropia - The Web Technology Company http://www.extropia.com/
Re: Can anyone help please
The easiest, fastest, and most transparent that I can think of is to just create a jump script/module/etc that you link to. something like http://servername/jump/ then you write your setup so that any link gets added on to the end of that making a link to www.newsite.com/folder/document.html into http://servername/jump/www.newsite.com/folder/document.html then you can parse outgoing files and anytime you find you just replace http:// with http://servername/jump/ log it however you need to On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Smith, Stephen (ELS) wrote: > Hi everyone, > > I have to make the tracking of users who follow links to external sites > possible, preferably indicating in specific logfiles when a new browser is > opened for linking to external sites. > We have tried proxy solutions, modifying Apache core modules and are > considering scanning and parsing our Html on the fly. > I understand that uri.c could be modified or changes could be made to the > .htaccess file. > The problem is it has to be fast and transparant, does anyone have any > ideas???
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On Tue, 20 Feb 2001, Smith, Stephen (ELS) wrote: > Gunther, > The scenario is we have a corporate website which allow freelance > maintainers to product branded areas, > as those arease are not administered our apache server must modify their > html pages on the fly and open > a new browser window whilst logging to a distinct log file. > > > > More details please. Are you referring to an intranet where your users are > inside and you want to track them (cuz you talk about being able to control > their proxy?) or are you talking about some other scenario? ---8<- admin -8<-- admin --8<--- Folks, please try to cite emails properly! The way some of you handle email replies really sucks. This particular email I reply to is a good example of how you shouldn't do it. We ask you to do that for two reasons: 1. help us to help you (many of us skip badly written emails) 2. for email archives to be usefull. (it's impossible to understand who has replied to whom and why when the quoting is done improperly) Here is a nice and short write-up on how to do the Right Thing (tm): http://www.email.about.com/internet/email/library/weekly/aa011000a.htm Thank you! ---8<- admin -8<-- admin --8<--- _ Stas Bekman JAm_pH -- Just Another mod_perl Hacker http://stason.org/ mod_perl Guide http://perl.apache.org/guide mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] http://apachetoday.com http://logilune.com/ http://singlesheaven.com http://perl.apache.org http://perlmonth.com/
