[Zope] Making zope work with ad serving software

[Michel Pelletier]

> -----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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