Thursday, August 25, 2011

Web-Engine [WE 1.0.0] Surveillance

Implementing an entire surveillance system on the Web-Engine is a lot easier then it sounds. Every time a user signs on, a file will be written to that will contain information. This information will include:
     -the username
     -the ip address
     -the time-stamp [a large combination of all the seconds from some date in the 90's]
     -the time
     -the date
Then when the user views pages of the website:
     -the name of webpage he viewed
     -the URL of the website he viewed
So the data should look like this:

user123 viewed the articles page [http://www.pokemon.com/articles/pokemon.php] @ 3:15pm [3487172817] 183.0.0.1 on Thursday 8-25-2011.

Every page he views is recorded just like this, not necessarily monitored but the information is good to have. It will be recorded into a text file and be kept in a flash drive. I estimate that there will be about 1mb of data imputed per day, so 1gb every 1,000 days. so a 4gb flash drive will last a long time before i need to buy a new one.

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