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Derek Balling

2005-02-23, 5:58 pm

My marketing folks are asking me to track a user's progress through the
site, including all the images they see, their entry point, when they
stop viewing pages, etc.

Using mod_usertrack for this seemed to be a no-brainer *except* that
the initial page-request doesn't have the mod_usertrack cookie in the
logfile (presumably because it wasn't *sent* by the client). Is there
any way to have apache sort that out under the hood and "pretend like
it received that cookie" when it goes to do the logging?

Mark Uhrmacher

2005-02-27, 5:51 pm

Derek Balling wrote:
> My marketing folks are asking me to track a user's progress through the
> site, including all the images they see, their entry point, when they
> stop viewing pages, etc.
>
> Using mod_usertrack for this seemed to be a no-brainer *except* that
> the initial page-request doesn't have the mod_usertrack cookie in the
> logfile (presumably because it wasn't *sent* by the client). Is there
> any way to have apache sort that out under the hood and "pretend like
> it received that cookie" when it goes to do the logging?
>


I have the same problem and used modified the log format to log the
"set-cookie" outgoing header. IIRC, "%{Set-cookie}o" is the format,
though it may be a bit wrong as I don't have the docs in front of me.

Good luck,

Mark
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