Recording Visitor Activity

... is this possible?

[austtr]

This was part of a post in another thread.... I thought it may reach a more qualified audience here.

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Is it possible to collect the IP address of viewers who "view source".... and if so,

Is it possible to record if they perform a CTRL C?

[MonkeeSage]

Not directly possible to check if they view source, though you can do some indirect tricks. The best I've heard is to drop a clue in the source in a comment, something like

"<!-- I need to get around to password protecting /foo directory, I really don't want just anyone to see the contents since they are so important to me -->"

Then count the views to /foo (needs to be an otherwise unused directory for this to work obviously).

As for CTRL-C, just do something like this

<script type="text/javascript">
<!--
document.onkeyup = function(e) {
if (!e) e = window.event;
if ((e.keyCode == 67) && (e.ctrlKey == true)) {
// do something to track here
// for example, call a CGI that
// writes count to a file on
// the server...
void(window.open('copy-counter.pl', '', ''));
}
}
//-->
</script>

Jordan