Tracking links

[DKL01]

Hi,

In our web application we are tracking the user information by writing the User ID, Time Stamp into database. User ID is being derived from Request.ServerVariables("LOGON_USER&quot. This code is on the server-side script.

We also have few links on ASP page. These links are word, excel documents residing on virtual directory. We need to track which user is viewing which link. I was wondering what could be the best method to implement tracking of links. I really appreciate any ideas/suggestions.

Thanks

 

[David75]

You could have the link go to an ASP page that logs which user is viewing which document, then redirects to the actual document. On the user's side they wouldn't notice anything, unless they tried to do a right-click and "save target as"... in which case they'd get your ASP page output (which would be blank).