Adding code in the page <footer> section

Hi,

I am requested by our IT to add analytics code to a site.

The code includes a script declaration which should be placed at the block, and a code snippet which should be added to the section.

I added the script declaration to the using the function:
drupal_add_js('http://...', 'external');
I see it showing up on the page, so no problem here.

Unfortunately I didn't find any way to add code to the page html footer.
I found that the template does not control this section, and it is generated by modules/system/html.tpl.php. However, this file ends with:

Whereas I would have needed it to end somewhat like this:


print $html-page-footer;

And there should be a proper interface to add content to that $html-page-footer variable.

Should this be posted as a core bug?

Thanks,
-- Nir