Mike,

My ISP logs me off if I don't make a request occasionally.  Perhaps the user is simply trying to keep his ISP from hanging up on him.
Have you checked to see what the User-Agent is?  Perhaps that will clue you in to what he's up to (he might be a stuck robot).

Brian A. Sayrs
Owner, Southwind Solutions

-----Original Message-----
From:	Mike Kear [SMTP:choicemag(at)hotmail.com]
Sent:	Wednesday, March 15, 2000 10:31 PM
To:	darrell(at)webctr.com; hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org
Subject:	Re: User connected for long periods ... any ideas?


No, and that's the puzzle.  The client's a consumer rights organisation. We 
have some polls that could be used by the consumer rights advocates for 
their campaigns,  we have some petitions we're asking users to sign, but 
this user is hitting the front page all the time, not the polls or the 
activists pages.  And not the shop either.

I's doing us no harm that I can see, and I'm content for him to keep on at 
it.  The only impact is on bandwidth, and that's really minor - we have 
heaps of capacity before we start to be affected on performance,  but I 
guess what I'm asking everyone is ... can you think of a malicious reason 
why this person might be doing this?   do you think I should be worried?

Cheers,
Mike Kear
AFP Web Development,
Windsor, NSW, Australia
http://www.afp.zip.com.au


>From: "Darrell King" <darrell(at)webctr.com>
>To: "HWG Techniques" <hwg-techniques(at)hwg.org>
>Subject: Re: User connected for long periods ... any ideas?
>Date: Wed, 15 Mar 2000 05:44:46 -0500
>
>  had allot of friends in the old (BBS) days that used to run a script to
>stay logged into role-playing games.  The script would issue repeating
>commands to their characters in the games, allowing the characters to
>advance in the game while the person was at work all day or whatever.
>
>Seems like it would be too expensive a strategy from an international
>perspective, but if you have something else on your site/system that 
>rewards
>constant user interaction...??
>
>D
>
>----- Original Message -----
>From: Mike Kear <choicemag(at)hotmail.com>
>
>It's Media House Live Stats v5.0
>
>And right now, the package says this about that particular user:
>
><ip address>  NET: <name of his host computer>  RDNS: n/a
>Origin:   Sao Tome    Time:   641 min   Hits / Kb:    412 / 6298.53Kb
>
>
>So, for now he's been attached in a session for 641minutes, he's hit the
>page 412 times, and downloaded 6.2MB.
>
>A "session" expires after fifteen minutes of inactivity, meaning no hits
>have been made on the Web site for 15 minutes.
>
>So why would one computer want to keep hitting our site  hour after hour on
>the same page?
>
>
>

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