From: ptkwt@...1.aracnet.com (Phil Tomson)
Date: 2003-05-08T13:08:16+09:00
Subject: Re: Thoughts on a webcounter

In article <09d201c314f2$c04e3d60$0300a8c0@austin.rr.com>,
Hal E. Fulton <hal9000@hypermetrics.com> wrote:
>Hello, all.
>
>The webcounter concept is something that has been 
>done over and over.
>
>Maybe it's not worth doing again. I'm thinking
>about it (may not ever get around to doing it)
>and I wonder what people think.
>
>If I were designing a webcounter CGI, these
>are the features I'd give it:
>
>- ability to reset to zero or a specific number
>- optional autoreset based on passage of time
>- option to count hits or unique IPs (this becomes
>  a little more tricky)
>- identify a counter by domain name and an identifier
>- password-protect so people don't monkey with each
>  other's counters?
>- option to return as text or graphical (via RMagick)
>- formatting options (and fonts for graphical mode)
>- option to add dates/times and so on
>- periodic-logging option so as to be able to retrieve
>  trends, etc.
>
>But then some of this treads on the domain of the 
>web log analyzer, I guess.
>
>Comments?
>
>Hal
>

Hal, 

I actually would like to get a web counter CGI in Ruby and these sound 
like good features, when will this show up on the RAA?  ;-)

Phil