Joshua Slive wrote:
On Thu, 10 Mar 2005 19:50:37 +1030, Freddie <freddie@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:Hi, I was just looking over the generated stats for some websites I host, and I noticed some strange results. Several users have used tools such as GetRight to download files in multiple parts, and the log entries for these seem incorrect to me. The actual size of the file is 183,353,344 bytes, but the total of these log entries ends up being several gigabytes. It's my understanding that the byte count field is the bytes transferred for this connection. Any ideas?No, the byte count in the log is the number of bytes requested, not the number transferred. And many of these "accelerators" (better named: bandwidth hoggers) work not by requesting different chunks of the file, but rather by making requests for "everything from byte x to the end" where byte x changes. Then they simply drop the connection when they have what they want. More accurate byte counts can be obtained using mod_logio: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_logio.html Joshua.
This seems a bit strange, to be honest. What is the use of logging the number of bytes requested if the connection is dropped partway through? Requesting from byte x to the end does seem like a pretty stupid choice on the part of the "accelerator" authors, though :|
mod_logio looks a lot more useful, I'll try setting up a custom log format and smacking AWStats until it behaves. Thanks for the info.
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