Thread: Monitoring and redirecting/denying traffic

Hello All,


Ok, here is what I need to achieve. I want to know what websites that are being visited, then when a website in a list is visited (list is not known yet how it will be stored, but I'm taking care of this part), the application starts calculating the time spent on the website. If possible also traffic generated for the website.


I want to also know how to drop the traffic if a certain rule is triggered. I will set the rules later.


I hope I can find support here.


Best Regards,
Sikas.

Originally Posted by nvoigt

What you looking for is called a Proxy Server.

You will never be able to determine "time spent on site" because you have no control over the user. If I open a site and walk away to get a coffee, I didn't spent time there. But you will never know, all you know is that it was open and focused for that long. If I open a site and copy it to notepad, I can spent hours or days reading it without your program knowing that I opened the site for more than 5 seconds.

Thanks for the response, but I need to calculate the time spent even if the scenario you provided occurs ... This is due to some regulations I have here ... Hope you got me and be able to help.