On 3 Sep 98, at 20:48, Bill Houle wrote:
> Don't knock it till you've tried it. WebTrends can nail it down a
bit
> better than you expect since they have a session tracking module that
> can be attached to the Web server itself to generate a unique cookie for
> each visitor. They are not simply watching IP addresses. The "no
> activity" setting is there just to tweak what you might consider as a
> "single, contiguous session".
Could you elaborate on this?
Sounds like you would have to use NT if you used WebTrends for the
purpose you mention.
But I do know there is a moduel for Apache that will write a cookie
for each request. I have not pursued this. If I could tell it to
write a cookie as the following:
cookie|ip|date-time
Ummm..... I really don't understand how this works on Apache. I
bought the ORA Apache book which is only helpful in saying "hey look at
this" but gives no help in actually doing anything. I wonder if Apache
will write that cookie to the user's browser and thus when user requests
another file Apache reads the cookie and writes the data and thus you can
have the same IP number but a different user. Unique is now the cookie and
not IP-date combo. Anyone done anything with this? I can recall visiting
some sites where I was asked if I wanted a cookie all the time. And I know
that the owner of the website was not doing this on purpose. Perhaps they
had implemented in the module in Apache without realizing it.
If the best of what I said is true above --- I don't know how I could work
that in with WebTrends.
I will stick with IP-date as measure of uniqueness but if it could be
improved, without using NT and WebTrends, gee, why not. But I guess you
would irritate a lot of people like me who browse with "warn about
cookies" turned on.
Peter
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