On Wed, 16 Feb 2005 02:22:08 GMT,
"dave" <dm*******@woh.rr.com> posted:
I've got a situation where a page has a picture on it. This picture is
linked to in a newsgroup posting. The owner of the site wants to know how
many times the picture is viewed from the newsgroup, it is a small pic about
74k if that matters and stored locally on the server, not a link that he's
pulling in from another site.
Not a HTML authoring question... However, you're unlikely to be able to do
that, as I don't know of any browser and newsagent combination that will
tell you it's loading an image from a reference in a news article, you
could only do that when people were viewing news group articles with their
web browser. And even then, it'd rely on the referrer header (it's not
mandatory). Not to mention that web server statistics only show some of
the story (if people view it through a cache you might only know about the
first instance). Your best chance of doing that sort of thing is to serve
an image with a certain file name, and only refer to that particular file
with your newsgroup postings (i.e. don't also use it in webpages).
But all in all, this sounds rather like some attempt at tracking and spying
on people, which is a bad thing.
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