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awaresoft
11-08-2004, 11:25 PM
How about a way to track PDF files, media files opened in a viewer, or files that are downloaded?

The only way I know of doing this now is via a redirect page that uses a meta tag to redirect to the destination file.

The problem with redirect pages are there is no way of knowing when one canceled a redirect and returned to the previous page without accessing the destination file.

I love StatCounter!

Malcolm

webado
11-08-2004, 11:44 PM
I'm serving up media files in a pop-up window activated by clicking. The pop-up window displays a page that has the counter code in it. Since the media file is either displayed (for an image) or streamed (for an audio or video), this is pretty equivalent I figure.

The pop-up is for source and file protection actually, otherwise it wouldn't be needed.