On Wed, 20 Aug 2003 at 13:29, Merrill Oakes opined:
MO:I have a link to a PDF file on a web page. I want to count how many
MO:times that someone clicks on the link (i.e. downloads the PDF). The
MO:easy way (at least for me) would be to make them go to a "download page"
MO:first, and I could put a counter in the page, BUT this requires an extra
MO:step for the user.
MO:
MO:SO, is there any way to:#1. monitor how many a times a file has been
MO:downloaded, or maybe #2. have them click on a link (that is really a cgi
MO:script, that then increments the counter then starts the download/open
MO:of the PDF? Of course this last method will disable the ability to do a
MO:"shift-click" to download the doc.
merrill - i'm a little late on this thread, and the other suggestions are
valid, but here's one way to serve up files w/o using a direct link by
taking advantage of CGI.pm's header() function:
my $cgi = new CGI;
print $cgi->header('application/pdf');
open OUT, '/path/to/some/pdf/file';
my $buffer;
while (my $read = read(OUT, $buffer, 4096)) {
print $buffer;
}
close OUT;
# insert code here to increment the counter
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