-----Original Message----- From: Andrew Bunner [mailto:bunner@massquantities.com] Sent: Thursday, June 17, 1999 12:09 PM To: zope@zope.org Cc: Paul Willingham Subject: [Zope] Making zope work with ad serving software

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=m y_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.

Right.

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.

Yes but the Apache logs won't log the *outgoing* HTTP GET that the 'linuxtoday'ish external method will use to get your ad. In that case, you can extend the external method to do it's own logging to a nice common format you can analyze externaly. In fact, you could even INSERT a record into an SQL database (this might be to heavy weight for you though). Note that I'll be thinking in the next couple of weeks about a 'virtual' like built in method to do outgoing HTTP GETs on URLs, this will probably not be seen until 2.0 if at all.

Is PCGI mutually exclusive with mod_perl? We already have mod_perl compiled into Apache since it servers another (non-Zope) site on the same machine.

I can't see why they wouldn't play nice together. -Michel

Does anyone have any thoughts on this?

-- Andrew

Andrew Bunner President, Mass Quantities, Inc. bunner@massquantities.com Professional Supplements for the Perfect Physique http://www.massquantities.com

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