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Posted to users@httpd.apache.org by Thomas Moore <tj...@digitalperformance.com> on 2003/01/17 20:33:35 UTC
[users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
I want to log banner ads in my mySQL database (which I am doing now), and
then have the link jump to the customers web site (which I am doing now
using META HTTP refresh).
The problem is we want the customer to see that his link was clicked on by
our web server and it seems like using the META refresh puts the log data
into "no referer" for his web logs instead of our domain name.
I've looked quite a bit and can not find any good answers. Any help would be
appreciated.
Here is the PHP code/mySQL code I use to log the hits and the html code to
redirect the customer to the banner advertiser's web site...
$query1 ="insert into URL_LOG (number_of_hits, log_date, company_id, url,
ban_or_reg, category_id, mcategory_id)";
$query1 .=" values ($number_of_hits, NOW(), $compid, '$url', '$banner',
$catid, $mcatid)";
$result1 = mysql_query($query1) or die("Query failed - $query1");
print "<META HTTP-EQUIV=Refresh CONTENT=\"0; URL=http://$url\">";
?>
Click here if this screen does not refresh...
<a href="http://<?=$url?>"><?=$url?></a>
<?
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Re: [users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
Posted by Gary Turner <kk...@sbcglobal.net>.
Thomas Moore wrote:
>
>I want to log banner ads in my mySQL database (which I am doing now), and
>then have the link jump to the customers web site (which I am doing now
>using META HTTP refresh).
>
>The problem is we want the customer to see that his link was clicked on by
>our web server and it seems like using the META refresh puts the log data
>into "no referer" for his web logs instead of our domain name.
No PHP here, so a Perl example.
===============================
#!/usr/bin/perl -wT
use strict;
# The idea here is to let the browser go to a new url while a record
# is made of the click through.
my $path = $ENV{QUERY_STRING};
print "Location: $path\n\n";
====================================
This causes the browser to go to the address in $path. Some older
browsers may not support "Location". For that, you could also return a
page with a normal <a href>.
and, sample html
====================================
<html> <head>
<title>redirection test</title>
</head>
<body>
<h1>Let's Track a Click-Thru</h1>
<a href="cgi/go.pl?http://debian.org/">Debian</a>
<br>
<a href="cgi/go.pl?http://netscape.com/">netscape</a>
<br>
<hr>
==================================
Your access log will have the clicked-through site in the GET string.
At the same time, your customer will see a referer from the client. How
you parse the logs is another exercise. This should provide enough for
billing and the customer can compare to his access and referer logs if
he wishes. If his logs show you as referer, might he suspect you of
running up the count?
--
gt kk5st@sbcglobal.net
If someone tells you---
"I have a sense of humor, but that's not funny."
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Re: [users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
Posted by Nelson Goforth <ng...@earthnet.net>.
Jurgen -
I see your point - I've never looked at the access files to see (I
actually can't on my ISP).
Since most of the people listed in that online Guide won't be able to
see their logs either, what I do is send an e-mail (assuming that a
listing with a web address also has an e-mail address) that says -
"hey! someone just looked at your site" (for the most part this is so
people know that listing in the Guide is actually working for them). I
can send the IP address of the REMOTE_HOST (and I guess I could do a
lookup to get the domain name), but that seemed to confuse the
customers, so I took it away. I do, however write that to the special
log.
I did find something on Apache if its running mod_perl that bears on
the subject:
http://sedition.com/perl/mod_perl.html
Nelson
On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 01:59 PM, Jurgen wrote:
> Hi,
>
> if your advertisers should see your domain name or IP in their log
> file, when a request for a banner is made, then your server will have
> to be the one connection to their site. Redirecting doesn't work,
> because that will result in the visitor's browser being the one
> connecting to the advertisers page.
> It should be done with a Perl script, I don't know any easy way to do
> that with apache.
>
> I guess Nelson doesn't understand your question yet, but maybe now.
>
> Jurgen
>
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Re: [users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
Posted by Jurgen <ap...@squarehosting.com>.
Hi,
if your advertisers should see your domain name or IP in their log file, when a request for a banner is made, then your server will have to be the one connection to their site. Redirecting doesn't work, because that will result in the visitor's browser being the one connecting to the advertisers page.
It should be done with a Perl script, I don't know any easy way to do that with apache.
I guess Nelson doesn't understand your question yet, but maybe now.
Jurgen
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:33:51 -0800
"Thomas Moore" <tj...@digitalperformance.com> wrote:
> To be honest, I do not understand either of your answers.
>
> How would you redirect a dynamic url in apache then from a perl or php
> script?
>
> I want to LOG in my database and have the logs of our advertisers SHOW our
> domain name. I can't do that using HTTP- refresh. How else can I do this?
>
> And this is an apache question since it is dealing with Apache Logging....
>
> thanks,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Jurgen [mailto:apache@squarehosting.com]
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 12:30 PM
> To: users@httpd.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
>
>
> Hi,
>
> I don't think you understand his answer.
>
> There will be no web page and no link on it. It will redirect automatically
> without any link or anything displayed at all.
> Type "yahoo.com" into your browser window. You will be redirected to
> www.yahoo.com without any refresh nonsense and no link to click.
>
> And if you ask "How would I automatically redirect ..." then the solution is
> exactly what Nelson suggested.
> If you try to do it from within apache you will have to find a way to get
> the logging into the database.
>
> Jurgen
>
>
> On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:10:12 -0800
> "Thomas Moore" <tj...@digitalperformance.com> wrote:
>
> > I do not think you understood my question.
> >
> > How would I automatically redirect our customers to the banner
> advertiser's
> > web sites without using Meta Refresh and logging it in the apache logs for
> > the banner advertiser.
> >
> > If I do what you say below, I just have text on a page with a link to our
> > banner advertiser. That does not solve the problem. We need the link to
> > automatically be "clicked" so the user goes to the advertiser's site and
> we
> > can log the data in mySQL.
> >
> > thanks,
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Nelson Goforth [mailto:ngoforth@earthnet.net]
> > Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:50 AM
> > To: users@httpd.apache.org
> > Subject: Re: [users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
> >
> >
> > This isn't an Apache question, but what I do is have the link point to
> > a script "redirectURL.pl"
> >
> > This script does several things, but the part you're interested in goes:
> >
> > sub redirect{
> > print "Location:$input{rd}\n\n";
> > }
> >
> > $input{rd} is the URL - it's that simple!
> >
> > Nelson
> >
> >
> > On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Thomas Moore wrote:
> >
> > > I want to log banner ads in my mySQL database (which I am doing now),
> > > and
> > > then have the link jump to the customers web site (which I am doing now
> > > using META HTTP refresh).
> >
> >
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RE: [users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
Posted by Thomas Moore <tj...@digitalperformance.com>.
To be honest, I do not understand either of your answers.
How would you redirect a dynamic url in apache then from a perl or php
script?
I want to LOG in my database and have the logs of our advertisers SHOW our
domain name. I can't do that using HTTP- refresh. How else can I do this?
And this is an apache question since it is dealing with Apache Logging....
thanks,
-----Original Message-----
From: Jurgen [mailto:apache@squarehosting.com]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 12:30 PM
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
Hi,
I don't think you understand his answer.
There will be no web page and no link on it. It will redirect automatically
without any link or anything displayed at all.
Type "yahoo.com" into your browser window. You will be redirected to
www.yahoo.com without any refresh nonsense and no link to click.
And if you ask "How would I automatically redirect ..." then the solution is
exactly what Nelson suggested.
If you try to do it from within apache you will have to find a way to get
the logging into the database.
Jurgen
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:10:12 -0800
"Thomas Moore" <tj...@digitalperformance.com> wrote:
> I do not think you understood my question.
>
> How would I automatically redirect our customers to the banner
advertiser's
> web sites without using Meta Refresh and logging it in the apache logs for
> the banner advertiser.
>
> If I do what you say below, I just have text on a page with a link to our
> banner advertiser. That does not solve the problem. We need the link to
> automatically be "clicked" so the user goes to the advertiser's site and
we
> can log the data in mySQL.
>
> thanks,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nelson Goforth [mailto:ngoforth@earthnet.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:50 AM
> To: users@httpd.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
>
>
> This isn't an Apache question, but what I do is have the link point to
> a script "redirectURL.pl"
>
> This script does several things, but the part you're interested in goes:
>
> sub redirect{
> print "Location:$input{rd}\n\n";
> }
>
> $input{rd} is the URL - it's that simple!
>
> Nelson
>
>
> On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Thomas Moore wrote:
>
> > I want to log banner ads in my mySQL database (which I am doing now),
> > and
> > then have the link jump to the customers web site (which I am doing now
> > using META HTTP refresh).
>
>
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Re: [users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
Posted by Jurgen <ap...@squarehosting.com>.
Hi,
I don't think you understand his answer.
There will be no web page and no link on it. It will redirect automatically without any link or anything displayed at all.
Type "yahoo.com" into your browser window. You will be redirected to www.yahoo.com without any refresh nonsense and no link to click.
And if you ask "How would I automatically redirect ..." then the solution is exactly what Nelson suggested.
If you try to do it from within apache you will have to find a way to get the logging into the database.
Jurgen
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 12:10:12 -0800
"Thomas Moore" <tj...@digitalperformance.com> wrote:
> I do not think you understood my question.
>
> How would I automatically redirect our customers to the banner advertiser's
> web sites without using Meta Refresh and logging it in the apache logs for
> the banner advertiser.
>
> If I do what you say below, I just have text on a page with a link to our
> banner advertiser. That does not solve the problem. We need the link to
> automatically be "clicked" so the user goes to the advertiser's site and we
> can log the data in mySQL.
>
> thanks,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nelson Goforth [mailto:ngoforth@earthnet.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:50 AM
> To: users@httpd.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
>
>
> This isn't an Apache question, but what I do is have the link point to
> a script "redirectURL.pl"
>
> This script does several things, but the part you're interested in goes:
>
> sub redirect{
> print "Location:$input{rd}\n\n";
> }
>
> $input{rd} is the URL - it's that simple!
>
> Nelson
>
>
> On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Thomas Moore wrote:
>
> > I want to log banner ads in my mySQL database (which I am doing now),
> > and
> > then have the link jump to the customers web site (which I am doing now
> > using META HTTP refresh).
>
>
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Re: [users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
Posted by Jurgen <ap...@squarehosting.com>.
Hi,
what the "Location" header does is to tell the browser to go to another URL.
The connection to this other URL will be made by the browser, so the IP will be the visitor's IP or host name. There will not be a connection from your server to the advertiser's server, which means they will not have a connection from your server in their log files.
I don't know if this is what you want. Your script can log this request into a database though.
So this way you display a banner URL on your web site, which calls the script running on your own server. This script will enter a log entry in the database and redirect to the advertisers page. This will not make a difference on the display in the browser window.
Jurgen
On Fri, 17 Jan 2003 14:07:55 -0700
Nelson Goforth <ng...@earthnet.net> wrote:
> It really is just that line --- print "Location:$input{rd}\n\n";
>
> If I remember correctly (it's been several years since I wrote this
> script) this line has to come before ANY other headers or anything are
> sent (which is probably why you're actually seeing this written on a
> page), so this command must come ahead of any sort of &PrintHeader or
> anything like that. Also - the two linefeeds MUST be there.
>
> A couple of URLS on topic (search google on "perl redirect location"):
> http://sedition.com/perl/mod_perl.html -- if you're running Apache
> with mod_perl
> http://www.perl.org.il/pipermail/perl/2002-July/000229.html --
> someone who won't put in the linefeeds!
>
> Nelson
>
> On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 01:47 PM, Thomas Moore wrote:
>
> > What causes the url to get redirected?
> >
>
>
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Re: [users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
Posted by Nelson Goforth <ng...@earthnet.net>.
It really is just that line --- print "Location:$input{rd}\n\n";
If I remember correctly (it's been several years since I wrote this
script) this line has to come before ANY other headers or anything are
sent (which is probably why you're actually seeing this written on a
page), so this command must come ahead of any sort of &PrintHeader or
anything like that. Also - the two linefeeds MUST be there.
A couple of URLS on topic (search google on "perl redirect location"):
http://sedition.com/perl/mod_perl.html -- if you're running Apache
with mod_perl
http://www.perl.org.il/pipermail/perl/2002-July/000229.html --
someone who won't put in the linefeeds!
Nelson
On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 01:47 PM, Thomas Moore wrote:
> What causes the url to get redirected?
>
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RE: [users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
Posted by Thomas Moore <tj...@digitalperformance.com>.
What causes the url to get redirected?
-----Original Message-----
From: Nelson Goforth [mailto:ngoforth@earthnet.net]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 12:42 PM
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
That's what my script does: seamlessly goes to client site.
For an example, go to:
http://www.cprgonline.com/cgi-bin/directory.pl?searchkeys=3220
and click on the link under my name. My resume page will open in a new
window and a line is written to a special logfile (I don't write to
MySQL in this iteration of the project).
Nelson Goforth
On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 01:10 PM, Thomas Moore wrote:
> I do not think you understood my question.
>
> How would I automatically redirect our customers to the banner
> advertiser's
> web sites without using Meta Refresh and logging it in the apache logs
> for
> the banner advertiser.
>
> If I do what you say below, I just have text on a page with a link to
> our
> banner advertiser. That does not solve the problem. We need the link to
> automatically be "clicked" so the user goes to the advertiser's site
> and we
> can log the data in mySQL.
>
> thanks,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nelson Goforth [mailto:ngoforth@earthnet.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:50 AM
> To: users@httpd.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
>
>
> This isn't an Apache question, but what I do is have the link point to
> a script "redirectURL.pl"
>
> This script does several things, but the part you're interested in
> goes:
>
> sub redirect{
> print "Location:$input{rd}\n\n";
> }
>
> $input{rd} is the URL - it's that simple!
>
> Nelson
>
>
> On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Thomas Moore wrote:
>
>> I want to log banner ads in my mySQL database (which I am doing now),
>> and
>> then have the link jump to the customers web site (which I am doing
>> now
>> using META HTTP refresh).
>
>
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Re: [users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
Posted by Nelson Goforth <ng...@earthnet.net>.
That's what my script does: seamlessly goes to client site.
For an example, go to:
http://www.cprgonline.com/cgi-bin/directory.pl?searchkeys=3220
and click on the link under my name. My resume page will open in a new
window and a line is written to a special logfile (I don't write to
MySQL in this iteration of the project).
Nelson Goforth
On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 01:10 PM, Thomas Moore wrote:
> I do not think you understood my question.
>
> How would I automatically redirect our customers to the banner
> advertiser's
> web sites without using Meta Refresh and logging it in the apache logs
> for
> the banner advertiser.
>
> If I do what you say below, I just have text on a page with a link to
> our
> banner advertiser. That does not solve the problem. We need the link to
> automatically be "clicked" so the user goes to the advertiser's site
> and we
> can log the data in mySQL.
>
> thanks,
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Nelson Goforth [mailto:ngoforth@earthnet.net]
> Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:50 AM
> To: users@httpd.apache.org
> Subject: Re: [users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
>
>
> This isn't an Apache question, but what I do is have the link point to
> a script "redirectURL.pl"
>
> This script does several things, but the part you're interested in
> goes:
>
> sub redirect{
> print "Location:$input{rd}\n\n";
> }
>
> $input{rd} is the URL - it's that simple!
>
> Nelson
>
>
> On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Thomas Moore wrote:
>
>> I want to log banner ads in my mySQL database (which I am doing now),
>> and
>> then have the link jump to the customers web site (which I am doing
>> now
>> using META HTTP refresh).
>
>
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RE: [users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
Posted by Thomas Moore <tj...@digitalperformance.com>.
I do not think you understood my question.
How would I automatically redirect our customers to the banner advertiser's
web sites without using Meta Refresh and logging it in the apache logs for
the banner advertiser.
If I do what you say below, I just have text on a page with a link to our
banner advertiser. That does not solve the problem. We need the link to
automatically be "clicked" so the user goes to the advertiser's site and we
can log the data in mySQL.
thanks,
-----Original Message-----
From: Nelson Goforth [mailto:ngoforth@earthnet.net]
Sent: Friday, January 17, 2003 11:50 AM
To: users@httpd.apache.org
Subject: Re: [users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
This isn't an Apache question, but what I do is have the link point to
a script "redirectURL.pl"
This script does several things, but the part you're interested in goes:
sub redirect{
print "Location:$input{rd}\n\n";
}
$input{rd} is the URL - it's that simple!
Nelson
On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Thomas Moore wrote:
> I want to log banner ads in my mySQL database (which I am doing now),
> and
> then have the link jump to the customers web site (which I am doing now
> using META HTTP refresh).
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Re: [users@httpd] logging banner ads in customer's apache logs
Posted by Nelson Goforth <ng...@earthnet.net>.
This isn't an Apache question, but what I do is have the link point to
a script "redirectURL.pl"
This script does several things, but the part you're interested in goes:
sub redirect{
print "Location:$input{rd}\n\n";
}
$input{rd} is the URL - it's that simple!
Nelson
On Friday, January 17, 2003, at 12:33 PM, Thomas Moore wrote:
> I want to log banner ads in my mySQL database (which I am doing now),
> and
> then have the link jump to the customers web site (which I am doing now
> using META HTTP refresh).
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