[thelist] HELP! -- stats reporting packages & Querystrings

[Marty Landman]

At 04:51 PM 2/5/01, you wrote:

>We are hoping for a web-stat-tool solution - after all, shouldn't a log
>analyzer be able to analyze logs?

You could also try a hack instead that might be picked up by your current 
logging software. Convert the get strings into the path of the url, e.g.

http://mysite.com/mypgm.cgi?name=marty&job=programmer

becomes

http://mysite.com/mypgm.cgi/name/marty/job/programmer

or something kind of like that. Only you'd have to change the program that 
works with this data into going from parsing the query_string to parsing 
the path_info.

Well, if you can find what you want out there already obviously that's 
best. At least this is another way to look at it... I'm thinking that the 
logger software won't know part of the path is actually a program input so 
it'll treat it like another path on the site.

Marty