On 8/26/06, Daniel Watrous <dwmaillist@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
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?
For the first problem, see mod_log_io. How you deal with the second problem depends on exactly what statistics you want and why. There are various cache-busting techniques that assure that a new request is made every time a browser returns to the content. But they will degrade the browsing experience for your users. A middle ground is to cache-bust on just one small object on the page. Then you can infer that when people request this object, they are also getting the rest of the page from their cache. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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