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I have a page that has a game on it, and I want to track how many people
download the file. I know how to track hits to the page, but can I track
clicks on the link itself?

Site: http://www.sitenook.com/
Link: http://www.sitenook.com/ishido.zip

The link is a Palm PDA game, so don't waste your time if you don't have a
color Palm device.

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in post: <news:fAZqc.51505$ .com>
Mabden <> said:

> can I track clicks on the link itself?

http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Script...lick_Tracking/
http://www.hotscripts.com/Perl/Scrip...lick_Tracking/
http://www.hotscripts.com/ASP/Script...lick_Tracking/


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"brucie" <****@bruciesusenetshit.info> wrote in message
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> in post: <news:fAZqc.51505$ .com>
> Mabden <> said:
>
> > can I track clicks on the link itself?
>
> http://www.hotscripts.com/PHP/Script...lick_Tracking/
> http://www.hotscripts.com/Perl/Scrip...lick_Tracking/
> http://www.hotscripts.com/ASP/Script...lick_Tracking/
>
>
Kisses brucie, but those seem like whole apps, some costing $100. The
freebie I looked at had about 10 ASP scripts with logins, mySQL stuff, and
everything. Way overkill for my little Palm PDA game (a seen on
http://www.sitenook.com/ ).

I guess I could make the link go to its own asp file and use some
server-side redirect. So my new question is how can I "force" or "push" a
download from an ASP file.

index.htm has:
<a href=http://www.sitenook.com/ishido.asp> Download Ishido.Zip </a>

ishido.asp has:
Dim referer, browser, ip
referer = Request.ServerVariables ("HTTP_REFERER")
browser = Request.ServerVariables ("HTTP_USER_AGENT")
ip = Request.ServerVariables ("REMOTE_ADDR")

' code to save this stuff, I get this

' code to push the zip - How?

Just a hint would do...

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in post: <news:Tr_qc.69800$ om>
Mabden <> said:

> Kisses brucie, but those seem like whole apps, some costing $100.

asp Creating a Click-Through Tracking System tutorial
http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/012901-1.shtml

> The freebie I looked at had about 10 ASP scripts with logins, mySQL
> stuff, and everything.

you need something to store the stats, if not a db then a flatfile.

> I guess I could make the link go to its own asp file and use some
> server-side redirect. So my new question is how can I "force" or "push" a
> download from an ASP file.

no forcing or pushing involved. you just link to the script passing a
variable to identify the file the visitor wants to download (assuming
there is more than one file to download) not to the downloadable file
itself. once the script has done its goodies it sends a location header
to the requested file.

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"brucie" <****@bruciesusenetshit.info> wrote in message
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> in post: <news:Tr_qc.69800$ om>
> Mabden <> said:
>
> > Kisses brucie, but those seem like whole apps, some costing $100.
>
> asp Creating a Click-Through Tracking System tutorial
> http://www.4guysfromrolla.com/webtech/012901-1.shtml
>
> > The freebie I looked at had about 10 ASP scripts with logins, mySQL
> > stuff, and everything.
>
> you need something to store the stats, if not a db then a flatfile.
>
> > I guess I could make the link go to its own asp file and use some
> > server-side redirect. So my new question is how can I "force" or "push"
a
> > download from an ASP file.
>
> no forcing or pushing involved. you just link to the script passing a
> variable to identify the file the visitor wants to download (assuming
> there is more than one file to download) not to the downloadable file
> itself. once the script has done its goodies it sends a location header
> to the requested file.
>


Maybe I didn't get what you were saying? If so bear with me...

I don't think I'm explaining what I mean. I have no problem tracking the
users who hit my site. A flat text file is fine, as I use a Perl script to
view hits. But now I have added a link to a zip file (one zip file,
containing one file). I want to know when someone has clicked on the
download link, which just downloads the file. I realize I could make a
second page that the link goes to, so I can use ASP to write more info to a
file (DB, flat file, whatever), but the point is, the user has clicked on a
link and expects it to "just download". They don't want to have to click
ANOTHER link to "really" download the file. I just want to capture the fact
that they clicked on the original link on my main page.

> ...it sends a location header to the requested file.
This may be the piece I need. But I don't understand what this means.


I'm guessing that there's no way. I hoped someone would tell me about a
JavaScript onclick function or
something...


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Mabden

in post: <news:U1%qc.69804$ m>
Mabden <> said:

>> no forcing or pushing involved. you just link to the script passing a
>> variable to identify the file the visitor wants to download (assuming
>> there is more than one file to download) not to the downloadable file
>> itself. once the script has done its goodies it sends a location header
>> to the requested file.

> Maybe I didn't get what you were saying?

<a... /download.asp>

1. visitor clicks link

download.asp file:

2. get the variables you want (IP, referer etc)
3. open stats file
4. write variables to stats file not forgetting to increment count by 1.
5. close file.
6. send a location header for the file being downloaded at the end of
your script to the browser (in php it looks like this):

header("location: http://www.example.com/the-file.zip");

7. browser downloads file
8. write a script to read and format your stats file so it looks pretty.

> the user has clicked on a link and expects it to "just download".

thats what happens with the above, your fun giggly stats thingy is
transparent to the visitor. they click the link the file starts
downloading. easy.

> I hoped someone would tell me about a JavaScript

JS isn't suitable for this.


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"brucie" <****@bruciesusenetshit.info> wrote in message
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> in post: <news:U1%qc.69804$ m>
> Mabden <> said:
>
> >> no forcing or pushing involved. you just link to the script passing a
> >> variable to identify the file the visitor wants to download (assuming
> >> there is more than one file to download) not to the downloadable file
> >> itself. once the script has done its goodies it sends a location header
> >> to the requested file.
>
> > Maybe I didn't get what you were saying?
>
> <a... /download.asp>
>
> 1. visitor clicks link
>
> download.asp file:
>
> 2. get the variables you want (IP, referer etc)
> 3. open stats file
> 4. write variables to stats file not forgetting to increment count by 1.
> 5. close file.
> 6. send a location header for the file being downloaded at the end of
> your script to the browser (in php it looks like this):
>
> header("location: http://www.example.com/the-file.zip");
>
> 7. browser downloads file
> 8. write a script to read and format your stats file so it looks pretty.
>
> > the user has clicked on a link and expects it to "just download".
>
> thats what happens with the above, your fun giggly stats thingy is
> transparent to the visitor. they click the link the file starts
> downloading. easy.
>
> > I hoped someone would tell me about a JavaScript
>
> JS isn't suitable for this.
>

Well that's fantastic! I've never heard of the location header. I will look
into it and I think it will work great. I'm assuming ASP can do the same
thing as PHP (since it's all HTML at the browser end)! Thanks very much for
the hand-holding. I'm always amazed at getting a straight (excuse the
expression) answer on a
newsgroup. ;?)

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in post: <newsI%qc.69807$. com>
Mabden <> said:

> Well that's fantastic!

and easy peasy

> I've never heard of the location header.

14.30 Location
The Location response-header field is used to redirect the recipient
to a location other than the Request-URI for completion of the
request or identification of a new resource. [...]
http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt

> Thanks very much for the hand-holding.

i cant wait until we get to the heavy petting.

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"brucie" <****@bruciesusenetshit.info> wrote in message
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> in post: <newsI%qc.69807$. com>
> Mabden <> said:
>
> > Well that's fantastic!
>
> and easy peasy
>
> > I've never heard of the location header.
>
> 14.30 Location
> The Location response-header field is used to redirect the recipient
> to a location other than the Request-URI for completion of the
> request or identification of a new resource. [...]
> http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc2616.txt
>
> > Thanks very much for the hand-holding.
>
> i cant wait until we get to the heavy petting.
>

<blushing>
Gee, no one ever asked before. But I feel like such a newbie...

Will you still respect my code in the morning...

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> > > Thanks very much for the hand-holding.
> > i cant wait until we get to the heavy petting.
> <blushing>
> Gee, no one ever asked before. But I feel like such a newbie...

Ohhhh.... a virgin.....

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