On Wed, 17 Nov 1999, Jeremy Wadsack wrote:

> "Kubalak, Janet" wrote:
> 
> > If a user has their browser set to check for newer versions of a page each
> > time the browser is started up, and they leave their browser on all day, and
> > view a particular page 20 times during the course of that day -- that means
> > that their browser didn't even check for a new page 19 of those 20 times,
> > correct?  So nothing at all gets recorded in the logfile for those 19
> > requests?
> 
> Actually, that should get recorded in the log file as a request with result code
> (status code) "304 Not modified since last retrieval". Check the status report
> for these. Class 300 status codes don't get counted in the request report,
> though, if that is what you were hoping.
> 

I don't think so. If the page is just revisited, and "check once per
session" is set, then no connection is made to the server at all.

Also, 304's ARE counted in successes.

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