Posted by Hadron on 07/15/07 12:59

Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> writes:

> .oO(Hadron)
>
>>Michael Fesser <netizen@gmx.de> writes:
>>
>>> Such "statistics" are never accurate. HTTP is a stateless protocol,
>>> there's no such thing like a "currently online user". A user comes,
>>> sends a request, gets a response and is gone. Next request, next user.
>>
>>So you clearly have no clue.
>
> Sure?
>
>>PHP maintains sessions and the user can be logged for that duration and
>>therefore only counted once.
>
> You are the second one in this thread who obviously didn't read the "not
> logged in" in the original post

I am reading the "stateless protocol" stuff above and replying to that
in the context of PHP.
..
>
> And what does session counting tell you? Sessions can be open for hours
> without any user interaction. The user could have died already in front
> of his monitor and his session would still be open.

That's not the issue. Clearly something on a server cant know IF he is
reading the page or not. You can only go on the connections.

"Currently online" has a meaning - and that is that HIS PC is
connected. The rest is guesswork.

>
> Whatever way you go - it's always just guessing. So why bother at all?

Absolute tosh.

> Why show a questionable "information" that is of absolutely no use for
> the visitor? Just to show how cool and active the "community" is? If you
> want that you can use rand() - it's much easier than all others
> methods.

As I said - you are clueless.

>
> Micha

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