POLL WITH HFS
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(by bacter)

Here are two junks of code that you may use and modify for your needs
to do some POLL with hfs. The system is based on the overload of the
url with '?', where  I place vote=x, x being some number from 1..6.

The demo runs as follows:
1. you need a folder named images, where are placed the two simbols 
pon.png and poff.png for the polling bar, and an gif to load in the
secondary window.

2. To test how the things work, you have to run 'demo_voteme.htm',
when you vote the 'demo_vote' window is opened with the voted
value as overload in the url. To use it in your homepage, you
have to include the code of 'demo.voteme.htm' into your homepage.

3. You get in this demo the results in the logfile in the form of

	"Requested GET /home/demopoll/images/voteok.gif?vote=5"
	
   So you only have to write a small program in the language you
   prefer that select in the logfile the gets of voteok.gif , counts
   the number of votes of each value. You can by the same time
   check duplicated ip's from users that repeated votes and ignore them.
  
Another variant could be loading a small imagefile for each type of
vote, so te respective downloadcounters shows your votes.

4. Secondary effects:
Your global downloadcounter increases with each vote.