[Zope-dev] How can I find out who visited a URL within my Zope Product?

[Andy McKay]

> Can anyone think of a way this could be done?

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----- Original Message -----
From: "Craeg K Strong" <cstrong@arielpartners.com>
To: <zope-dev@zope.org>
Sent: Tuesday, October 08, 2002 2:48 PM
Subject: [Zope-dev] How can I find out who visited a URL within my Zope
Product?


> Hello:
>
> I would like to log the identity of the authenticated
> user for *every* URL traversal within my Zope Product.
>
> For example, let's say that my forms-based web application contains 50
> screens.  They are all protected such that only authenticated users
> can view them.  Any one of them could be bookmarked, so a user could
> "jump in" at any point.
>
> I want to record the fact that a user visited a screen, each and every
> time they do so.
>
> A natural place to do this would be in a pre-traversal hook, but I seem
> to be stymied by the lack of authentication information in
__bobo_traverse__
> or __before_publishing_traverse__
>
> Can anyone think of a way this could be done?
>
> I suppose I could hack all of my ZPTs to call a "registerUser" method
> by putting it in an empty <span> in their shared header, but that seems
> to mix concerns.  Why should my ZPTs have knowledge of this workflow
> requirement?
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> --Craeg
>
>
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