[development] access module

[mark burdett]

Hi, if you do decide on client-side analytics you might look at piwik:
http://piwik.org It loads via javascript or a <noscript> img tag.
There's a drupal module that integrates with piwik (haven't used it
myself): http://drupal.org/project/piwik

--mark

On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 9:46 AM, Dmitri G <dmitrig01 at gmail.com> wrote:
> I disagree with the fact that you turn to JavaScript as an access
> logging solution.
>
> Access logging needs to log *everything*, but what if a user has
> JavaScript turned off, as many do?
> Oh well. They won't be logged.
>
> Why don't you use hook_boot, which is new in Drupal 6, and runs for
> *every* page, even ones that are cached aggressively. That way, you
> don't run into problems of generating tokens (which you would have to
> do per-page-load) and such.
>
> Dmitri
>
> On Fri, Aug 22, 2008 at 8:55 AM, Balazs Dianiska <csillagasz at gmail.com> wrote:
>>> I wouldn't worry too much about misuse, since people could just visit the
>>> page hundreds of times anyway to achieve the same result - just make a post
>>> request to a javascript menu callback, and log from there.
>>
>> I was concerned about that one could fabricate a post call and do it
>> programmaticaly. Having validation at least requires semi-real visits
>> from a JS capable browser and some automatization, which hopefully is
>> a little bit more difficult to do on large scale than the fabrication.
>>
>> However it just dawned on me that I could just check for a session in
>> the callback code, which should prevent most fabrications to work.
>>
>> Earnie: yes I looked at other alternatives, but none of them seems to
>> give me the simple output of the standard access module, just more
>> accurately (-bots).
>>
>> Thanks for the feedback,
>> Balazs
>>
>