[ale] Hit Counter

[Terry Bailey]

You are correct.  According to a person on a Perl group, IE doesn't support 
XBM since version 6.  I now have modified it, using text with spacing  and 
it is working just fine.  Looks just about as good and is faster. There is 
a problem, however.  If I do something like this:

www.xxx.com/cgi-bin/counter.cgi it works great; but, if I embed into 
another script it increments by two.  Strange.  Hopefully, I can find the 
problem.

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At 09:01 AM 2/14/2007, you wrote:
>Terry Bailey wrote:
> >
> > Sure.  Here it is.  Solving the problem would be nice.
>
>Off the cuff:
>
>* I'm pretty sure that IE isn't going to display an X11 bitmap image
>(Mozilla probably only does due to its ancient Netscape heritage)
>
>* the hard coded "$LOCK_XX" constants might be causing problems if the
>calls to lock and unlock weren't commented out; replace those with "use
>Fcntl qw( :flock )" and then use LOCK_SH() instead.
>
>* the way it's storing the digits is . . . erm . . . interesting
>(basically it's storing each column (1s, 10s, ..., 10ks) as a separate
>line and then doing kinda something odometer-ish with them), but I don't
>see any reason that'd cause problems right off
>
>
>That said, you'd probably be better off grabing something like the
>ImageCounter script from the nms project than trying to resurrect this.
>
>http://nms-cgi.sourceforge.net/scripts.shtml
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