[WEB4LIB] Need help

[Dan Lester]

Friday, August 25, 2000, 1:04:30 PM, you wrote:

SS> One of my librarians is having problems with a patron that is
SS> continually abusing the internet usage policy of the library.
SS> She tried using the Netscape & Explorer history logs to gather
SS> evidence, but they are much to weak.

Run the sessions through a proxy server.  Of course the machine needs
to be locked down enough that someone can't bypass the proxy server by
changing browser setup.  The proxy server logs everything, every
blessed file that is received.  Shows the time to the second, and the
IP number of the machine.  As long as you can tie the troublemaker to
a certain machine at a certain time, you've got him (or her, of
course)

cheers

dan




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