Andrew Bunner wrote:

First of all, thank you to everyone who's expressed interest in helping us with the EliteFitness.com project!

We've been using a piece of ad serving software called Central Ad Pro. It can be invoked via two mechanisms...

<!--#include virtual="/cgi-bin/ssirand.cgi?REGION=my_region" -->

-or-

<img src="http://mydomain.com/cgi-bin/getimage.cgi/unique?ACCOUNT=my_account&BANN ER=my_banner"></a>

Now, if you want to serve an HTML "banner", you have to you use the SSI mechanism... at least until we all have XML capable browsers and their fancy X-LINKS <g>

My question is, what is an analogous way to embed the output of a CGI into a page served by Zope that will let us generate "useful" web logs? I read the thread about pulling the links off LinuxToday, so I understand that there are HTTP getting functions.

I'm sure it's do-able, my main concern is that we're still able to analyze the click-through ratios of the banners! This makes me think we will have to use Zope with Apache.

I notice that you're not specifiying exactly what the link from the image is. Your best bet is to have the link go, not to the target site, but to a "click-through server" that will log the click and its originating page and then redirect to the actual destination. Some more information and ideas can be found at: http://www.photo.net/wtr/thebook/user-tracking.html Hope this information is useful... Michael Bernstein