Hello, I have a concern about determining data transfer statistics based on apache logs. This problem may be more or less severe depending on the average size of the files being served. When a web page is requested from apache, each file contained within the page is requested as it is encountered in the html page. This means that for each HTML page request the server may receive many hits or requests. The apache logs keep track of each of these hits or requests separately. A scenario might be as follows. An HTML page that is 5kb in size contains tags which include images totalling 30kb and a movie file that totals 20MB. When this page is requested, the apache logs will show the request for the HTML file, a separate entry for each image, and an entry for the 20MB file. the first 35kb of data downloads rather quickly, but the video is slower. If the user waits for the entire 20MB file to download then the log is accurate. There are two potential problems with this scenario. First, if the user cancels the download or exits the page before the download is complete, the apache log still shows a request for the full file, keeping no information about how much of it was downloaded. The second problem is if the users revisits the page, and either windows media player, quicktime, flash, etc. have cached the file, does apache still receive a request for the content, and delivers nothing? Using the apache logs to measure data transfer statistics presents possible inaccuracies. Is there some way to address this? Is there another solution for measuring data transfer? Thanks in advance. Daniel --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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