Item14480: VISITORS & NRGUESTS returning no results

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Priority: Normal
Current State: Confirmed
Released In: n/a
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Applies To: Extension
Component: UserInfoPlugin
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Reported By: LynnwoodBrown
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Last Change By: GeorgeClark
I recently noticed in site updated to latest Foswiki (2.1.4) that the %VISITORS{}% macro is not returning any results and %NRGUESTS% always returns "0", even though I confirmed that there were both authenticated users and guests on the site (by monitoring events.log ). The LASTVISITORS and NEWUSERS do seem to be working as expected.

-- LynnwoodBrown - 14 Sep 2017

That's a side effect of changing the session file format to Storable from the default Data::Dumper format. It was changed by Item13563 in order to support unicode WikiNames.

The solution is to use the CPAN:CGI::Session ->find() call to search the session store rather that reading the files directly.

-- GeorgeClark - 15 Sep 2017

Note that counting of guests and visitors will become unreliable if Guest Sessions is disabled. For public facing sites, that's a good thing to use. It prevents the search bots from flooding the session store with useless sessions.

-- GeorgeClark - 15 Sep 2017
 

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Summary VISITORS & NRGUESTS returning no results
ReportedBy LynnwoodBrown
Codebase 2.1.4
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AppliesTo Extension
Component UserInfoPlugin
Priority Normal
CurrentState Confirmed
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Topic revision: r2 - 15 Sep 2017, GeorgeClark
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