Hi,

Iam in need to write an application that would record the interaction between a user and the browser while surfing the internet.

I'd like to catch everything.like to record too is when a user presses the back, forward and refresh button, saves a page or the content of a link, adds a bookmark, and similar.

Beside giving me a few tips to answer my question if you could even point me to some code snippets would be largely appreciated! 

Thanks in advice to everyone who will gave input.
Regards,

Hi Pradeep,

Due to the stateless nature of HTTP, you cannot really "track" user actions accurately. Though you can write some JavaScript code to do some basic level of tracking (and use Sessions etc to track pages visited), but thing's like saving a page cannot be tracked as these are happening purely on client side. Also, anyone can turn off the scripts which will render useless any client side tracking.

There can be other ways, like developing and installing an ActiveX control on each client machine which can track such events. But there is no gurantee that users *will* install it due to issues like security.

Anyways, here is a nice article which discusses various approaches to user tracking:

http://www2006.org/programme/files/xhtml/17/xhtml/fp17-atterer.html

Hope this helps,

Vivek

Hi  vivek this artical is good but its a third party tool na ,i am looking to develop a windows application, i heared  using some "Classfiles" we can

catch the browsing information . if u found any example plz send that.

ThanQ verymuch  dude.

>..i am looking to develop a windows application

You got me confused here. You want to develop a windows app or a windows component to be used in a web app?

Also, that link has the best approach if you don't want to use ActiveX control. You can write your own JS code. What "classfiles" you heard about? You have any link?

Vivek

SS i have.......

http://www.freevbcode.com/ShowCode.asp?ID=6702

I want to develop a windows application and create a setup file and install into every users system.

This is just a cookie and history viewer. This won't help you track your remote users unless each of them has this tool installed which will send a report via email or something similar so that you can get notified of their browser interactions.

Vivek

actually i want to store the browsing details of  everyday of every user . i did it.

Thxs Vivek.