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Re: package download stats?
On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 18, 2003 at 11:20:04AM -0400, Igor Pechtchanski wrote:
> >On Thu, 18 Sep 2003, Christopher Faylor wrote:
> >> That's kind of what I was thinking. I could generate a cgi script to
> >> run, if necessary but obviously it would need some kind of
> >> authentication to avoid abuse.
> >
> >Hmm, I doubt we can prevent a determined user from faking the necessary
> >setup HTTP headers from outside setup... Unless we start requiring
> >registration to download Cygwin, which is a whole other can of worms.
>
> Hmm. I like your registration idea. There should be a small fee associated
> with registering, too. And, monthly dues. And, we could add some checking
> to the DLL to prevent unlicensed use. Hmm. I think I have an account
> where people can even use their credit cards to register. :-)
<http://bitpass.com/> :-p
> But, seriously, I just wanted to make it less than trivial to use. It
> shouldn't be as easy as opening
> http://cygwin.com/downloadstats.cgi?apache to register an apache download.
Yeah, who needs simple stuff?
Although, actually, you do need a bit more than that -- at least the
version of the package and the mirror it was downloaded from, and it would
also be nice if all the packages were included in one http connection,
rather than 50 separate connections for 50 packages (the POST method comes
to mind).
The passthrough script above is something like what I've mentioned as
having written already (which you so graciously snipped from your reply).
;-)
> >That's kind of what I was hinting at when I said "every setup run makes an
> >http connection to cygwin.com". The problem with this approach is that it
> >won't give any package download statistics, and won't be able to detect
> >aborted setup runs. Depends on what accuracy you want, I guess...
>
> Actually, after I said that, I realized that we already gather page hit
> statistics. I'm more interested in seeing what people actually are
> downloading for packages, though.
>
> cgf
Exactly.
Igor
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