Archive of UserLand's first discussion group, started October 5, 1998.

Frontier and intelligent data logging

Author:Tom Fuerstner
Posted:1/25/1999; 2:57:28 AM
Topic:Frontier on MacOS X Server
Msg #:2435 (In response to 2434)
Prev/Next:2434 / 2436

Actually i am investigating several possibilities to develop Frontier-Scripts for intelligent data-logging and -analyzing, usertracking and userprofiling. yesterday i did some prototyping on counting link-clicks via cgi-scripts. Instead of using plain direct links i used a combination of a cgi-script together with a linktpath as an argument for the cgi. A method well known to perl-programmers. By calling the cgi i first check wether there exists a valid linkpath. When a linkpath exists the calling browser is redirected to the specific linkaddress. After this i want to to write the information i got from the cgi-call being written directly into a SQL database. In Perl this means a straight forward solution by using parent and child processes which enables you to divide the cgi-call into two separate threads which is very efficient . So the user of the browser-client does not have to wait till the complete request has finished. Now i want to know how to break a frontier-responder into two threads because i cannot see any reason why to make the respondercall longer than necessary.

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