--- Keith A <sunken@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > I am new to this site and have been reading through > all the information > presented here, but my search didn't answer my > question. Welcome to the group. ~snip~ > > Anyway, if a visitor comes in to the site (and it > apparently matters > little which browser) from the index page, it > records like 4-5 entries > for that index page (GET / with the same IP as the > original request, > but no referer after the initial request), one right > after the other a > couple of seconds apart. Then if the visitor from > that IP goes to any > other page (which logs normally), another 4-5 > entries for the index > page (again GET / with no referer) are written into > the log. This > seems to happen for every page they go to. It > doesn't happen for > everyone, just certain people, I'd say maybe 5%-10% > of the traffic. Of course it happens for every page. one requiest for the page file, with referrer. one request for every single image / video / audio / flash resource on the page. you are averaging 5 requests per page, that is a page and 4 images most likely. > We do ads on impressions, so what I am curious about > is if this is > normal behavior and whether the ads are being run > each time > (javascript). There is no other resulting entries > with the GET / > commands (as in image loads, etc), just the multiple > lines. > > Any help would be greatly appreciated in knowing > whether I'm just being > paranoid or this is something that is on my server > and what to do about > it, if anything? >don't do anything, it's natural behavior, and exactly what the logs should be showing. __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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