[Zope] Tracking Users in Zope

[Oliver Bleutgen]

Chris McDonough wrote:
>>Regarding the analysis of resulting data I would leverage existing
>>analysis tools. If you make the External method write the log data
> 
> in
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>>'combined Apache http log format' you will be able to use wusage
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> (it's
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>>shareware) which does what you want.
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> 
> Really?  It analyzes traffic patterns with session ids in them?  I
> didn't think the combined format had a "slot" for session ids.  I
> think it definitely needs to be custom.
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> 
>>Is there a free http log analysis tool which can do user behaviour
> 
> tracking?
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> There may be something along with mod_usertrack in Apache, I'm not
> sure.


wusage indeed does use a custom format if you want usertracking, the 
last column gets the unique cookie value. And it indeed uses 
mod_usertrack of apache.

I think a good and simple solution would be to use apache as a frontend 
and indeed let mod_usertrack do the work. Write the cookie value into 
apaches logfiles (this is simple with a custom log) and analyse that. I 
guess in this case the analysis itself might be the real work, so why 
bother with the NIH syndrom.

cheers,
oliver