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

From: chris@nospam.com
Date: 04/27/02

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    From: chris@nospam.com
Date: Fri, 26 Apr 2002 18:17:33 -0700

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

    >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).

    Although you might be able to parse to logs to see if the page is sent
    twice - viewed and then saved.

    I've seen a few sites that use javascript to prevent the user from
    right-clicking to get the context menu to choose save as. Of course
    disabling java gets around that.

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