Re: Beginner question: monitoring of visitor-actions on a webpage

From: Barry Margolin (barmar@genuity.net)
Date: 04/26/02 

From: Barry Margolin <barmar@genuity.net>
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 20:14:34 GMT

In article <ea1f3d55.0204261205.1cc14476@posting.google.com>,
Anke Weissenborn <ankeweissenborn@web.de> wrote:
>Is it possible to record what a visitor to a webpage is doing with the
>contents of the page he/she is viewing, esp. if the web-page visitor
>is saving the contents of the web page with the "save as" function
>(explorer) as an html file?
>I would like to know if a reporting tool exists that is able to report
>this type of information without hacking the other persons computer.
>Thanks for the help, Anke

No. The server just sends the data to the browser; there's nothing in the
HTTP protocol that allows the browser to describe what it will be doing
with it (displaying versus saving). 

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