[squid-users] Tracking user connection times

[Alex Crow]

On 20/04/15 15:34, Dan Berry wrote:
>
> I have setup a squid proxy as a POC for user tracking. I am looking 
> for a way to track for close events, most of the customer sites that 
> are accessed are HTTPS so I can’t track activity. I might be able to 
> get by with tracking total connect time, so I know the windows of time 
> users were connected to a specific site. Is this possible?
>
> Dan Berry
>
> Data Network Engineer
>
>

I doubt it unless you are in control of the sites the users are 
visiting. When a page is loaded, the browser instructs the OS to open a 
TCP connection to download the page. When all the data has been 
downloaded, the TCP connection becomes idle and after a short time the 
OS will close it.

If the sites are yours I suppose you could add some JS that would get 
the browser to repeatedly make a request to the site with a 
page-specific ID so you could track how long they were on that page.

Cheers

Alex

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