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["marcia AT nc.rr.com" <marcia AT nc.rr.com>]

Thanks for you help Craig. And sorry if freaked out some of you with my
original posting... it must be my accent ;-)



Original Message:
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From: Craig Duncan craigduncan AT entuend.com
Date: Thu, 21 Jul 2005 14:37:47 -0400
To: internetworkers AT lists.ibiblio.org
Subject: Re: [internetworkers] how can I id a user?


marcia AT nc.rr.com wrote:

>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?
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>marcia AT nc.rr.com wrote:
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>>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?
>
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Now, that sounds a lot less sinister than your original request, and
there might be a way to do this. Since cookies are out of the question,
you could set a variable in the query string and pass it around from
request to request. Every time someone starts a new session by, say,
going to the home page, you update the query string.
This can be done automatically in languages like PHP using sessions w/o
cookies (without having to alter existing pages) and I am sure there are
similar things on other platforms.

Craig


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