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WhosOnCFC 2.0.1 Available on RIAForge

I have just released the new version of WhosOnCFC.  This release is more or less a maintenance release to bring things up-to-date with the SVN repository.  This version includes the CFLayout-based CF8 viewing utility which is incomplete, but it is currently working.  This is something I plan on getting wrapped up as soon as I have a little bit of extra time.  If someone would like to expand on it, I am open to that as well.

I also added in a sanity check for whoson.cfc.  Over the weekend I pulled up my blog and noticed I had approximately 987 active sessions and that number was growing by about 60 sessions a minute.  In an effort to avoid crawlers masking their user agent with legitimate browsers, WhosOnCFC will quit logging hits after the first 10 sessions from one IP address.  I may make this configurable later on, but it seemed the best way to handle the situation.  Another idea was to make it more of a first-in first-out situation where it deletes the earliest hit and keeps the newer one.  Again, I am open to suggestions.

Comments
Joshua's Gravatar Couldn't you make it configurable that the identified bot is simply not counted at all? Or given an attribute so you can easily filter it out for session counts?
# Posted By Joshua | 4/16/08 1:09 PM
Shane Zehnder's Gravatar Well, that is where I will probably go with it, just have it not counted at all. I am just trying to figure out the most effective way to make it work. Should an IP address be permanently ignored, or should the session timeout be applied to it?

It's definitely something to think about.
# Posted By Shane Zehnder | 4/16/08 1:50 PM
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