unfortunately if you have plain offsite links, the browser doesn't have to come back to your site at all to follow the link, so unless you redirect them to an onsite page first (which you can clearly track) you're theoretically out of luck.

Except that you could make the link not really a link, but a javascript button that would simultaneously load some onsite cgi with a tracking parameter in one frame, say, while loading the intended target page in the other.

That's where it stops being a perl question though, and I'm not sure that kind of practice would be looked upon as entirely ethical, so... YMMV.

All the best,
Grem

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