[hobbit] Tracking Users -- Ideas

[Ward, Martin]

Hi James,
 
Tracking users of a website is a little tricky unless you actually have
them logging in and out. Most websites are not stateful, which is to say
you do not have the concept of a user being logged in; the user
connects, downloads a webpage from your site and disconnects.
 
Your example:
> The log-file looks like this:

> 192.168.0.22 - user07 [20/Aug/2007:08:49:49 -0500] "GET
/htdocs/info/wd.html

shows a user ID so presumably you have some kind of authentication, but
do you have a "logoff" button and are your users forced to use it? Or
can they simply authenticate, download the data and then close their web
browser?

 
> So, it shows all the web pages the user accesses. What I really want
to know

> is how many users are currently connecting through to the web-site.

 

How can you define "Currently"? If you mean "How many people are
currently download webpages from my website and if you are running a
unix machines then you can use the "netstat -an" command and find all
connections that are connected to your local port 80 (or whichever port
your web server runs on).

 

|\/|artin



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