hi there,
I've been struggling to reconcile traffic reports from analog and webtrends
for a while now. I strongly favor analog, but I've found one item where
webtrends seems to have the upper hand: screening spiders. I've found some
references on your FAQ but they don't quite answer my question.
I tried to replicate the webtrends spider list as follows:
BROWEXCLUDE spider,spyder,crawler,architext,lycos,infoseek,surfbot,slurp
etc.
but it doesn't work well. webtrends, by default, looks for the above strings
in a case-insentitive manner anywhere in the browser field. I had to adjust
the analog version as follows:
BROWEXCLUDE *spider*,*spyder*,*crawler* etc.
BROWEXCLUDE *Spider*,*Spyder*
this gives much better results, but it's cumbersome. is there a way to make
only the browser field case insensitive (say a BROWCASE command, similar to
USERCASE)? I imagine I could use regular expressions, but that also seems
cumbersome (the spider list is much longer than the example here). any
shortcuts?
I'm using analog4.03 on Solaris
thank you very much for your attention
William I. Martin
Senior Programmer
www.SPACE.com
Phone 212-703-5871
FAX 212-703-5900
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