[Zope] Zope.org Feature Request - Product Download Counter

[J. Atwood]

Ooops... sorry Ethan, didn't mean to send this to the wrong place. Just
wanted to see what others felt about it. If it is undoable, cool. If someone
figures out a way, it would be really appreciated and certainly a boost to
Zopista's and product developers to see how popular and used our products
are.

That is all.

Thanks,
J

> From: mindlace <mindlace@digicool.com>
> Date: Tue, 10 Oct 2000 16:15:44 -0400
> To: zope@zope.org
> Cc: zope-web@zope.org
> Subject: Re: [Zope] Zope.org Feature Request - Product Download Counter
> 
> Andy McKay wrote:
>> 
>> Of course the only problem with a hit counter is that high traffic requests
>> mean continually writing the object into the ZODB each time it gets hit /
>> downloaded, whatever. Thats why I release FSCounter which uses the file
>> system. I would like to expand this to cover multiple objects...
> 
> The problem is slightly more complicated than this:  We have Apache
> cache file and image objects.  This is a good thing, because they are
> static, and Apache will *always* be better than Zope at serving static
> content. This is a bad thing, because direct requests for files don't
> ever make it to Zope.
> 
> Nonetheless, this doesn't affect the /view method.
> 
> Further, we now have the feature that the listing of products shows the
> latest version, no /view method in the middle, for your direct download.
> 
> I may be able to do some parsing of the apache log files for those
> things that end in tgz, tar.gz , and zip.  This would be somewhat
> canonical, except for the fact that because we have cache headers set on
> the file objects, they are cached downstream, and so many requests for
> cache objects will never make it to our Apache at all.
> 
> ~ethan
> 
> p.s. I'd really appreciate it if requests for improvements of zope.org
> be sent to zope-web@zope.org.
> 
> 
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