ok, hmmm... Some new points to ponder. I guess I kind of assumed that javascript was pretty ubiquitous. I do have access to "real" server access logs provided by my host. But where's the fun in that, when I can write scripts to do things?
Ummm... file locks? I am not updating the counter file myself, the perl program in the cgi-bin directory does that. It is just a simple increment script that increments the number in the file supplied to it by the calling command. I have made sure that there is a count file for every page, with the same name as the content page, but with no extension (it seems the perl code wants it this way), and that the javascript call in the webpage has the name of the count file for that page. So it all lines up nicely.
Now I am trying to figure out how to add LWP to my cygwin installation so that I can request the count files, and put the numbers into a report that shows each page that is visited. To be sure, I can validate this against the server logs if I want, but again, where's the fun in that?
It's great to have come this far after so long, but now I want to do all the cool stuff that the big people do with real websites, but I can still only barely crawl.
Can you explain the file locking thing a little more for me please? If need be, I can supply the count program code, to check it to see if it locks files.
Thanks for your help.

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