Thanks! Paul On Sat, Aug 2, 2008 at 3:52 PM, André Warnier <aw@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Paul Li wrote: >> >> Yeh, I'm asking something about programming... >> >> André. could you tell me why some referer pages are displayed as "-", >> but some are url ? > > The "-" referer probably comes because the caller did not provide a > "Referer:" header in his request. > > For example, open a new browser and acces a URL on your server, then look at > the access log. It will probably show a "-" for the referer. > > Or, if you have perl installed, re-do the example I sent earlier, but do not > specify a "-H" switch. > > Got it ? > The "referer" information in your access log *only* represents the content > of the "Referer:" header sent by the client, If there is none, then you get > "-" for that field in the access log. > It is written so, so that if you have a program analysing your access log, > it will not get confused because one line has fewer fields than the others. > Brilliant, those Apache developers, no ? > >> >> Thanks again and have a good weekend! >> > And the same to you. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > 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 > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- 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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