We want the ability to log to an Oracle DB as much information as we can on who, and the number of who, downloaded our product and when

This is not a pure perl suggestion, but I prefer letting web servers handle their own logging.
If you are tracking downloads for marketing reasons ( build those who and when relationships! ), you may also want to watch how users navigate through your site to get to the actual download. Or, you may be interested in where visitors come from before they download.
All of this is probably already logged in a file somewhere, but DBAs have to earn their keep like everyone else. Right?

If you have an Apache server with mod_perl, you can use Apache::DBILogConfig. If you do not have Apache and mod_perl, I apologize because I can not help you.

I am not saying using a script for this is neccessarily a bad thing, it might be all you need. And, mod_perl might be extreme overkill.

Will perl for money
JJ Knitis
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gt8073a@industrialmusic.com

In reply to Re: Meta Redirects and CGI by gt8073a
in thread Meta Redirects and CGI by tradez

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