You mean, like use the items in the access log? You could always create a valve that watches for certain paths and updates a DB/file entry or some such. --Angus
> -----Original Message----- > From: Mark F [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Thursday, July 10, 2003 2:15 PM > To: Tomcat Users List > Subject: tracking downloads > > > We need to track every time a file is downloaded from our > server so that we may report on usage. We are currently > migrating to a new Java/JSP (Documentum and WDK) based Web > application. We wrote a perl script before under the old > system to parse the log files and construct a report but I'm > fairly certain there is a better way now that we are using > Tomcat and Java. I thought about using a filter to increment > a counter every time a request matched a particular pattern > and I also thought about using the log file approach again > this time using a java logging package but I'm not really > sure what the best approach would be. Especially since we > will not only need to record the download but query the > database (or in this case documentum) in order to check for a > specific attribute relevant to the report. > > Any ideas on how best to accomplish this are appreciated. > > -Mark > --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
