RE: [Summary-Talk] Visits with session cookies

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 12/6/04 5:19 PM Pablo F. Garcia Melga (pablo.garcia@xl.net.ar) wrote:

>Unfortunately that's my case... I have 
>ASPSESSIONIDXXXZZZZYYYY=AAAABBBCCCDDD
>, is there any plan to support this type of token ?,

If the "XXXZZZZYYYY" portion of the above examples varies from request to 
request, then Summary can't currently use those cookies for visit 
tracking. I will add support for this situation to the wish list.

>is there any other way
>to know for sure the amounts of visits not contaminated by proxies,
>firewalls , etc.. ?

ASPSESSIONID is not an especially good way to do that either. There are 
several situations where more than one ASPSESSIONID can be given out for 
a single visit. Plus, visitors that have cookies disabled will not be 
detected as visits at all if the ASPSESSIONID is used as the basis of 
visit tracking.

Summary's standard visit tracking already has a sophisticated system for 
detecting and compensating for the effects of most proxies and firewalls 
(enabled when "Combine proxy clusters into one host" is turned on). The 
only system I know of that is better at visit tracking than what Summary 
normally uses requires a substantial amount of Javascript code be placed 
on each HTML page.

For background information see 
<http://summary.net/manual/howto.html#visits> or 
<http://summary.net/manual/tutorial/lesson1-2.html#visits>.

Jason

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