Counting Clicks
[1/5] from: louisaturk:eudoramail at: 23-Dec-2001 15:54
Is there any way to record (count) the clicks on a link to a third party
website?
Louis
[2/5] from: arolls:idatam:au at: 24-Dec-2001 14:54
> Is there any way to record (count) the clicks on a link to a
> third party
> website?
>
> Louis
No, unless your rebol code is web serving. (That
means you can run your rebol code to do whatever
you like with the click).
But if your site is hosted by someone else, then
bad luck.
There used to be a way to record rebsite visits
via an image's effect block. However, this was
also a security hole and was removed :)
But wait, there are third party websites around
with a system that will munge your links for you,
redirecting them through their machines and
maintaining statistics for you.
Maybe some rebolers around here who are rebserving
would be prepared to do such a thing for other
rebolers? That would be quite cool. Actually, as
soon as I can convince my boss to let me run rebol
on the server I think I would offer something like
that to some people here, since I see now how easy
it is to run a rebol proxy. :)
Anton.
[3/5] from: louisaturk::eudoramail::com at: 23-Dec-2001 22:28
Anton,
At 02:54 PM 12/24/2001 +1100, you wrote:
> > Is there any way to record (count) the clicks on a link to a
> > third party
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>means you can run your rebol code to do whatever
>you like with the click).
If I use my own computer as the server, can I do it? How?
Does this also mean that a rebol program is the server software instead of
say Apache or IIS?
>But if your site is hosted by someone else, then
>bad luck.
Seems like I am always wanting to do something that is impossible or that
someone wants to restrict me from doing :>).
>There used to be a way to record rebsite visits
>via an image's effect block. However, this was
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>it is to run a rebol proxy. :)
>Anton.
I would like to know how to do this myself.
Louis
[4/5] from: arolls:idatam:au at: 24-Dec-2001 16:58
> > > Is there any way to record (count) the clicks on a link to a
> > > third party
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> >you like with the click).
> If I use my own computer as the server, can I do it? How?
To be the server, the computer ideally should be accessible
to the net (ie. to people like me) 24 hours a day.
You sure you really want to do that? :)
> Does this also mean that a rebol program is the server
> software instead of
> say Apache or IIS?
Umm.. yesss... But you can run them together easily.
Just get Apache or IIS to run rebol for .r files.
(I haven't done it yet, though).
> >But if your site is hosted by someone else, then
> >bad luck.
>
> Seems like I am always wanting to do something that is
> impossible or that
> someone wants to restrict me from doing :>).
Yeah, the power of the internet is still tied up
in big, expensive server racks that are owned by
rich people. However, it used to be worse.
> >There used to be a way to record rebsite visits
> >via an image's effect block. However, this was
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> I would like to know how to do this myself.
> Louis
Well, refer to my post on Friday "No-white-web-proxy.r"
and you will see that the program is derived from
webserver.r in the Rebol script library. (It's very
simple, you should check it out.) Once you look at the
code, you can see how easy it is to examine the url,
(referred to in the code by 'file), and do any sort of
statistics collecting you like here.
But don't take my word for it, try it out on your
local machine. Your ip number, if you are not sure,
is 127.0.0.1 (localhost), so make a few fake directories
in the web-dir to serve up to interested
browsers, (for example %fakehost.com/index.html)
and direct your browser to it, http://fakehost.com/index.html
(I think that's how I did it, anyway.)
Anton.
[5/5] from: louisaturk:eudoramail at: 24-Dec-2001 1:15
Anton,
At 04:58 PM 12/24/2001 +1100, you wrote:
>Well, refer to my post on Friday "No-white-web-proxy.r"
>and you will see that the program is derived from
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>(I think that's how I did it, anyway.)
>Anton.
Thanks. I'll check it out.
Louis
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