On Mon, Feb 1, 2010 at 1:45 PM, Luis Ortega <gow...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hello > > I am fairly new to programming (which means I have never, ever, ever > written a program). I have a book or two in Python, and so far I like it. > I have a stupid question to ask; Is it possible to write an employee's > internet tracking program in Python? > > I know I have a long way before I even attempt to code, but could someone > describe what the process would entail? How would my python program be able > to track an employee as he surfs the net (along with capture IP & time > wasted on the net). > > I know that there are programs that can be purchase to do what I 'm trying > to accomplish. I just will like to write it my self. You're right about having quite a while to go... but it's definitely possible. Basically, from about a 10,000' view, you would be writing a program to act as proxy between the web browser and the internet. I suppose at its most simple, you could write it with fairly few lines of code. The only thing I'm not sure on how to do is grab the outgoing connection. I presume it would require some type of loopback device, but I'm not terribly familiar with sockets/network programming. The IP part is pretty simple - a simple google search about "python resolve ip address" or something to that effect would probably get you good results. After learning a bit about program flow (i.e. writing a few programs), you could probably look up "python socket programming" and come up with some useful info. HTH, Wayne
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