Re: reporting commands

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2001

It keeps the original formatting. numero = 37223
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texte = [IPADDRESS] is useful in tracking the source of the visitor, but cannot be relied on to uniquely identify a visitor since there are many situations where multiple users share the same public IP address. It can be used in custom logging to tell, for example, how many users are coming from AOL (with some effort).[BROWSERNAME] is most useful when your site's design and layout are browser- or OS-dependent. For example, Windows browsers and MSIE 5 for Mac display text larger than Netscape Mac or earlier versions of MSIE for Mac, so I often use [BROWSERNAME] to determine what SIZE to use in my FONT tags. You can also make JavaScript, CSS or other decisions based on the BROWSERNAME.[COMMAND] is not really a tag so much as a read-only variable. If you are using command-based links and forms rather than context-based handling, this can be useful. I (and many other) experienced WebCatters generally avoid the use of Commands. Security can be more of an issue with Commands vs. Contexts, and as a programmer I don't care for the lack of control inherent in the behind-the-scenes workings of Commands (in which WebCat basically wraps the whole page in a Context based on the Command parameter passed in to the page). If you are using Commands, however, and you one page that may be accessible with a couple different commands, then the [COMMAND] tag would let you make some coding decisions based on what command was passed in to the page.Hope this helps...- brianAt 9:49 PM 7/14/2001, Donovan Brooke wrote:>Hello,>I've been going through the docs. There are a few tags like [IPADDRESS]>& [BROWSERNAME] & [COMMAND] etc.. that>look to be very usefull in anylizing ones site. However, I can't grasp>how they would be used exactly? Would they be commands>that append a log file or database? Then one could look at them later?>Or, could it be a realtime thing to where one could look>at a window of events kinda like a webservers window? What is the>standard use for tags like these? Thanks.>>Donovan-- <= Brian C. Fries, BrainScan Software http://www.brainscansoftware.com =>-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Associated Messages, from the most recent to the oldest:

Re: reporting commands (Donovan Brooke 2001)
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[ipaddress] is useful in tracking the source of the visitor, but cannot be relied on to uniquely identify a visitor since there are many situations where multiple users share the same public IP address. It can be used in custom logging to tell, for example, how many users are coming from AOL (with some effort).[browsername] is most useful when your site's design and layout are browser- or OS-dependent. For example, Windows browsers and MSIE 5 for Mac display text larger than Netscape Mac or earlier versions of MSIE for Mac, so I often use [browsername] to determine what SIZE to use in my FONT tags. You can also make JavaScript, CSS or other decisions based on the BROWSERNAME.[COMMAND] is not really a tag so much as a read-only variable. If you are using command-based links and forms rather than context-based handling, this can be useful. I (and many other) experienced WebCatters generally avoid the use of Commands. Security can be more of an issue with Commands vs. Contexts, and as a programmer I don't care for the lack of control inherent in the behind-the-scenes workings of Commands (in which WebCat basically wraps the whole page in a Context based on the Command parameter passed in to the page). If you are using Commands, however, and you one page that may be accessible with a couple different commands, then the [COMMAND] tag would let you make some coding decisions based on what command was passed in to the page.Hope this helps...- brianAt 9:49 PM 7/14/2001, Donovan Brooke wrote:>Hello,>I've been going through the docs. There are a few tags like [ipaddress]>& [browsername] & [COMMAND] etc.. that>look to be very usefull in anylizing ones site. However, I can't grasp>how they would be used exactly? Would they be commands>that append a log file or database? Then one could look at them later?>Or, could it be a realtime thing to where one could look>at a window of events kinda like a webservers window? What is the>standard use for tags like these? Thanks.>>Donovan-- <= Brian C. Fries, BrainScan Software http://www.brainscansoftware.com =>-------------------------------------------------------------This message is sent to you because you are subscribed to the mailing list .To unsubscribe, E-mail to: To switch to the DIGEST mode, E-mail to Web Archive of this list is at: http://search.smithmicro.com/ Brian Fries

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