Re: Could not connect to SMTP host

Gunnar,

Wow! That's a very impressive hack you have set up. Just out of
curiousity, what do you use to handle step 3)? Apache, running as a
proxy server?

> Specify a number of "special parameters" which can be added in any
> http request in Pixory. E.g. "pixory1, pixory2, ..., pixory5". If 

I would be happy to do that, because it's fairly easy and completely
unobtrusive. I'm definitely planning to implement user tracking in
Pixory, but there are some pretty basic internal changes I"m working
on before that happens.

I'll be sure to consult with you when I start working on the visitor
tracking, because it sounds like you have thought things through
pretty well and I like the sounds of how you implemented it.

regards,

joe

--- In [email protected], Gunnar Heikkilä <pixory@u...> wrote:
> 
> > You can't. Hits logging is not yet implemented.
> > 
> 
> On the other hand it is super-easy to do your own logging. Just edit
> the  "log.configuration.xml" file sligthly and then create the log by
> e.g. a Perl script. If you also want to get the names of the public
> users you can add your own entry-page to catch that.
> 
> Step 1: Change the time stamp in the logging so that date is added:
> "ConversionPattern" value="%d{yyyy-MM-dd HH:mm:ss,SSS} (%t) [%p:%c{2}
> -- %m]%n"
> 
> Step 2: Change the value of "PXRequestLog" to priority value="debug".
> Set all others to "error" to get smaller log files.
> 
> Step 3: Create a HTML page with a form (I use First name, Last name,
> Email) which users are required to fill in before they can be
> redirected to your Pixory site. Add the name and email as parameters
> to the Pixory HTTP request (e.g.
> http://xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx:8081?firstname=AAAA&lastname=BBBB&email=CCCC)
> so that this info will be in the log file.
> 
> Step 4: Create a small script which parses through the log files and
> extracts whatever you want to know. I find it easiest to let the
> script produce an HTML page with the following information for each
> user accessing Pixory:
> 
> 2004-09-15 14:00:30 [194.xxx.yyy.24]  Firstname Lastname Email
> 
> Album name
> 
> Then follows all pictures that user has viewed. I let the HTML page
> point to the smallest thumbnails (75 pixels) for pictures only viewed
> in "thumbnail mode", and point to the larger 150 pixel thumbnail for
> pictures which the user actually viewed separately. 
> 
> 2004-09-16 14:00:30 [194.xxx.yyy.24]  Firstname Lastname Email
> 
> Album name
> 
> Pictures...
> 
> 
> Then I just use my browser to actually "watch" the pictures my user
> watched. I have used this method since Pixory 2.12, and it works good
> enough for me. Of course I cannot stop anyone from filling in a fake
> name, but that has rarely been any problem.
> 
> A sligth drawback is that if more than one user is looking at the
> pictures at the same time, and both users have the same IP address
> (typical my collegues at my company) it will not be possible to know
> exactly who is watching what picture. 
> 
> I also use the "entry page" to say some words about my picture site
> (usual disclaimers etc.), plus warn that my server is not always
> running. To avoid that people create bookmarks directly to my Pixory
> site I let the entry page open Pixory in a new window without any
> toolbar info (e.g.
>
toolbar=no,location=no,directories=no,status=no,menubar=no,scrollbars=yes,resizable=yes).
> I also use cookies to remember their form input to make next access
> easier for them (and thus encourage that the form is filled-in every
> time).
> 
> Joe, if you are going to implement some kind of user logging, then you
> could consider the following scheme to handle public user tracking:
> 
> Specify a number of "special parameters" which can be added in any
> http request in Pixory. E.g. "pixory1, pixory2, ..., pixory5". If any
> of these parameters are found in the http request, then Pixory should
> keep adding the same paramaters to all subsequent http requests.
> 
> In this way it would be very easy to trace individual accesses, even
> when made by public users. I can catch the names by a form, and then
> send in the parameters the same way as I do today. If this was
> implemented there would no longer be a problem with users behind the
> same proxy.
> 
> /Gunnar





 
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