Is there a way to track to a specific person

Tracking to a unique person

[morris]

If someone is coming through an ISP and behind a personal firewall, is there a means of specifically identifying them? How much trouble is it to really identify exactly who they are? I think I am being probed and would like to know who it is. I've done the ARIN search and a tracert but is there a means of connecting it to the person.

[mack]

Hi morris,
I dont think this is possible without getting the other persons internet service provider involved. Generaly I doubt if they would be prepared to disclose any information about their customers without a request from a legal authority.

Mack.

[morris]

Thanks Mack. As a neophyte, I am trying to come up to speed with all of the logging and tracking capabilities.

[cfx211]

If your site is registration based and requires either signup or login, then you can have some luck tracking users. I would recommend building two tables, one that tracks every cookie issued and one that records every session on your site.

The cookie table would contain the cookie value, user agent, ip address, first referring url (this is the url that referred the person on their first visit), cookie create date, and then any unique user information that you can tie to your cookie.

The visit table would contain a session value, create date, referring_url, first url visited on your site, and a link to the cookie table (probably using the cookie id).

Having these two tables in place has helped me out a lot both as a means of tracking individual users, and getting larger usage patterns figured out.