[Zope] How do you track if somebody leaves your site..?

[Paul Zwarts]

Interesting....

But arent there many of these stat sites that have the little icon in the
bottom? I've seen average view times per page and such. Perhaps that little icon
itself is what does it, since it activate cgi?

Would it not also be possible to run an external method that captures a netstat
command? An IP connection will establish channel and either be on a time-wait or
closed and disappear. It would tax the server, but not create too much net
congestion with these reloading gifs as Hannu pointed out...

Is that possible?

Paz

Chris McDonough wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Because of the way the Web works, there's no real way to determine when
> someone leaves your site.  It's probably best to compare the server to a
> vending machine.  Someone comes along, puts some money into the machine and
> pushes a button (initiates a transaction with the server), and walks away
> (closes the connection).  The vending machine for the short period of time
> that the money goes down the slot and the button is pushed does some work
> and gives them a snack (some HTML or some other textual data), but it
> doesn't know or care whether the guy is hanging around afterwards.  When the
> guy comes back to the vending machine, it likewise doesn't "remember" him.
>
> This conundrum is often solved by "sessioning" products, which take a stab
> at attempting to identify a particular user between requests for some period
> of time defined by "inactivity" (time between requests by the same user).
>
> There are several sessioning products for Zope:  SQLSession, FSSession,
> HappySession, and CoreSessionTracking.  You can find these on Zope.org.
>
> HTH,
>
> - C
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "StoonsDesign" <webmaster@stoonsdesign.dk>
> To: "ZopeQ" <zope@zope.org>
> Sent: Wednesday, February 28, 2001 7:41 PM
> Subject: [Zope] How do you track if somebody leaves your site..?
>
> > Can somebody tell me how to track if someone "leaves" the Zopeserver..?
> >
> > I am going to use it for some login-feature....
> >
> > Stoons, WebMaster @ 3D Festival http://www.3dfestival.com (Yes, that was
> > made using Zope!)
> >
> >
> >
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