Hi Aengus, Thx again. Yep i do realise that the web is connectionless - i was using the term loosely to mean a series of requests - and i also realise that is dodgy too given prioxies caches etc.
The big advantage with Apache and Analog is you get to experiment! I've never needed to follow or even issue cookies before - the general stats Analog derived from combined log were fine. I assumed it would be easy to do some basic user movement checking but got a nasty surprise! I'll look into userinclude ASAP. Cheers! Rob. AAt 19:24 12/11/01 -0000, you wrote: >---- Original Message ----- >From: "Rob Pearce" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > >> This creates a logfile (output eg); >> >> clt56-121-099.carolina.rr.com - - [12/Nov/2001:14:02:47 +0000] >> "GET /images/ntbuttoff.gif HTTP/1.1" 200 1648 >> "http://www.ltsneng.ac.uk/ale/contact/howtofindus.asp"; >> "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 6.0; Windows 98)" >> "clt56-121-099.carolina.rr.com.125411005573762938" >> >> Just as i wanted! But now I would like to compute & display info >> about user "sessions", or movements around my site from this logfile >> - the simple thing i cant find an answer to is "can Analog even do >> this?" If this is obvious to you I apologise - but i just cant find >> an answer in the documentation. > >http://www.analog.cx/docs/faq.html#faq186 > >Make sure you read an understand "How the web works" >http://www.analog.cx/docs/webworks.html. There is no such thing as a >"session" in a connectionless environment like the web - a user can read >your whole site without ever connecting to your server if he accesses your >site through a caching proxy server, or he might use 10 different IP >addresses to visit 10 different pages on your site. A home user will >almost certainly use a different IP address every time he visits your >site. Your usertrack module may or may not deal adequately with some or >none or all of these issues. And, as a UK site, you should also be aware >of the provisions of EU Data Protection legislation, and the use of >personally identifying information ><http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/6/22435.html>. > >Having said all that, you can use Analog to examine the specific >activities of one user by using the USERINCLUDE directive. If you pick a >few users at random, and examine their usage patterns, you may get some >idea of general trends that you are looking for. > >Aengus > >+------------------------------------------------------------------------ >| This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this >| mailing list, go to >| http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html >| >| List archives are available at >| http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ >| http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ >| http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 >+------------------------------------------------------------------------ > > Web Developer, LTSN Engineering Loughborough University Leics., LE11 3TU Tel: 01509 227176 Fax: 01509 227172 [EMAIL PROTECTED] www.ltsneng.ac.uk +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | This is the analog-help mailing list. To unsubscribe from this | mailing list, go to | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/unsubscribe.html | | List archives are available at | http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/ | http://lists.isite.net/listgate/analog-help/archives/ | http://www.tallylist.com/archives/index.cfm/mlist.7 +------------------------------------------------------------------------
