Thanks, I will check into this. Would this add a lot of overhead to the application?
-Mark Angus Mezick wrote: | 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] --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
