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From: Zachary Bedell <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: '[EMAIL PROTECTED]' <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Date: Monday, August 28, 2000 11:41 AM
Subject: RE: CF and WebTrends
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>> Is there any problem with using WebTrends on a CF site? Can
>> I track users
>> actions through a CF site like I can with a *normal* html site?
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>Yes you can, and you can even use the CFID / CFTOKEN cookies that CF
>sets to improve visit & user session tracking.
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>One gotcha to be aware of, tho: When WebTrends analyzes the logs, it
>can be setup to retrieve the titles of each page from the webserver
>(I think this is the default). In the process of doing that, it will
>execute all of your CFM pages. On one (poorly designed) site that we
>host, the CFM page that sent email conformation of orders was
>executed by WebTrends for each order in that month. And since those
>page requests were logged (with the order ID in the query string),
>they ended up in the current month's logfiles. So... Each month,
>every order to date was getting re-emailed. It took us a little
>while & many an aggravated phone call from the customer to track that
>one down....
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>Best regards,
>Zac Bedell
Jeeze... that's nasty. It actually calls up the page, including the
original query string, just to get the stupid page title? You'd think
they never dealt with a site running any kind of CGI scripts. Then
again, maybe it's up to the WebTrends administrator to foresee this
behavior.
Jim
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