At 10:58 AM 8/10/1998 -0700, Kayla Block so eloquently stated:
>At 03:02 PM 7/25/98 +1000, franko wrote:
>>At 22:16 6/08/98 -0400, Urb Lejeune wrote:
>>>>
>>>> What is the easiest way for me to track the source of a visit to
>>>> our site? If you refer somebody to me, I want to track that and
>>>> report back to you.
>>>
>>> Easiest way is with cookies. Second is with IP addresses although
>>>you cannot reliably tract from session to session with IP address.
>>>Another way ... forget it you said simple :-)
>
>*blink* Sorry, this answer makes no sense at all. Cookies are not relevant
>to this question and how are you suggesting that ip addresses give you a
>methodology to access the referrer?
>
>Easiest way is to look at your web's server logs. Any log analysis program
>will give you information on referrers. This is not something that cookies
>deal with, since the site that was the referrer would set the cookie and
>your site could not read a cookie set by another site. If you are running
>Apache I can give you a more detailed answer. Don't know enough about other
>web servers offhand, but it shouldn't be hard to get the info you want.
>
Log addresses are not good here. As I understand referrers log
will give you the ISP name, i.e., if it's an AOL account, AOL.
We need to know you specific address.
George
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