[thelist] IIS, Cookies and html pages

databarn databarn at airmail.net
Thu Jun 28 14:02:06 CDT 2001


Bob,

Have a look at 
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/012901-1.shtml ,
"Creating a Click-Through Tracking System".

I had a similar project for an intranet, but cookies wer verboten.  Took the article above and modified it a bit to create a reporting system to show entry and "exit" pages (as well as exit can be shown, I suppose) as well as a breadcrumb trail of pages accessed during any given session.  Used ASP and SQL Server, but the server-side code was only on the database update page, so most of the work involved repointing existing links to that page.  Sessions were identified by IP address (14-day lease, IP change only during boot), and the work done by the ASP page plus updating the database was, to all intents and purposes, imperceptible to the person browsing.  Should work well if traffic is not extremely high.

Make a good day . . .
			 . . . barn
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From:	Bob Davis [bobd at members.evolt.org]
To:	evolt [thelist at lists.evolt.org]
Subject:	[thelist] IIS, Cookies and html pages
Time:	6/28/2001 at 12:42PM

I've been looking through the docs for IIS 5, and I can't seem to
figure out if there's a way to use cookies with static HTML files to
track visitors through the site.

I have a client who is interested in getting "click trails" for users
and "entry pages". They've been using WebTrends in the past, but have
changed their hosting. They own their server, and have the
flexibility to do whatever they want, so any suggestions would be
helpful.

Right now, I'm just grabbing their log files and running them through
Analog. I don't believe there's a way to generate click trail reports
and entry page reports in Analog though. Cookies seem to be the way
to do this (presumably).

Do I have to tell them to buy WebTrends and install it on the server,
or is there another way?

bob
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bob davis
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http://www.bobdavis.org/

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