Re: lynx-dev HELP NEEDED FOR COUNTERS AND FORMS

[Roger Hill]

On Sun, 14 Jun 1998, David Woolley wrote:

> Page counters are an inefficient use of network resources; a particularly
> important factor for a country like India, which I believe still has 
> relatively poor connectivity.  If you want to know the hit counts (and
> even this can waste resources) you should ensure that your web server 
> understands If-Modified-Since requests and that you can mark pages as
> having a zero expiry time (look at Cache-Control: in the the HTTP 1.1 
> spec (RFC 2068, I think)), and then request a summary of the server
> logs.
> 
You could also use PHP (www.php.net) and say mysql (www.tcx.se): this is a
server side scripting language, great for doing forms etc, and comes with
a built-in mechaism for doing text-only page counters, plus lots more
besides. Works just fine with Lynx. You would have to get your ISP to
install them for you, however. Both are essentially free.

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