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  • From: "marcia AT nc.rr.com" <marcia AT nc.rr.com>
  • To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
  • Subject: Re: [internetworkers] how can I id a user?
  • Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:22:42 -0400

Craig,

That's the thing... I'm not sure what information I need, but I know what I
want to accomplish.

I want to be able to know how many unique visitors a web page receives per
day. If a person access that page 10 times a day, it should count as 1
visitor. I know just the IP won't do the job, due to several different
reasons. But, what can I pair with an IP address that will create this
unique machine's identity?

Now, I understand that if a page a viewed 100 times, by 100 different
visitors, but from a public machine, it will count as only 1 visit, since
the IP address and every other hardware information will remain the same.
But this scenario would not be very realistic in this project's case. And I
can always add a hit count to the page.

Any suggestions?


Original Message:
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From: Craig Duncan craigduncan AT entuend.com
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:07:49 -0400
To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] how can I id a user?


marcia AT nc.rr.com wrote:

>Hello all,
>
>I want to gather some web visitor information, but I'd like to do so behind
>the scenes.
>
>To do that, I can use either coldFusion, javaScript, or flash actionScript,
>or a combination of all. I know just the IP address won't be enough, so
>what else can I get from the user without having to use cookies?
>
>Any way to get something from the BIOS, or registry like info, that would
>work cross-platform?
>
>Thanks!
>Marcia
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Knowing what type information you are looking for would help define how
to go about getting it. Just saying I want to grab data from someone
computer is not very helpful. Care to elaborate?

Craig
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