On Fri, Jan 29, 2010 at 12:12 AM, Rajagopal Swaminathan <raju.rajsand at gmail.com> wrote: > Greetings, > > How does one monitor if a site is being accessed using browser? > > IOW, I just want to know if a user has launched a session thru Firefox. > > I basically want to know if a user has tried to access the webserver > and unable to reach it and log such instances. > > I am using cron and curl to seperately monitor the link. > > Any clues? > > Centos 5.2/Gnome/Firefox 3.0.16 It's clear what it is you're trying to do, but If you're running Apache, turn on CustomLog "logs/access_log" combined The default is CustomLog "logs/access_log" common It will not only log the browser type, it will also log the OS in the access_log file. For errors accessing files, see the error_log. If the client can't reach the site, then it should be clear the server won't be able to log the attempt. -- Enjoy global warming while it lasts.