[Tutor] tracking program

[Philip Kilner]

Hi Luis,

Luis Ortega wrote:
> I am fairly new to programming (which means I have never, ever, ever
> written a program).  I have a book or two in Python, and so far I like
> it.  I have a stupid question to ask; Is it possible to write an
> employee's internet tracking program in Python? 
> 

Wayne is right that you could do it as a proxy, but one question you can
ask is "which bits do I need to write in Python, and which bits can I
use an off the shelf solution for?".

One choice here is to use an existing proxy server that logs activity,
and then write a Python application to analyse the logs.

That might be a more approachable problem for you at this point.

HTH


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Regards,

PhilK


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