On Thu, 13 Apr 2006, Jon Russell wrote:
Hi,
I know this has been discussed before, but I wonder if anyone has any good
ideas this time round ...
I have a site with lots of "buttons" that point to the same sections. To log
the effectiveness of each button the links are sent via a redirector of the
form ...
/redirector/HomepageSmallGalleryButton.html?/gallery/
/redirector/NewspageLargeGalleryButton.html?/gallery/
the script on /redirector/ ignores the rest of the URL and just redirects to
whatever is on the querystring. i.e. /gallery/
I get log files with entries ..
GET /redirector/HomepageSmallGalleryButton.html?/gallery/ HTTP/1.1" 302
GET /redirector/NewspageLargeGalleryButton.html?/gallery/ HTTP/1.1" 302
Which I then want to process with analog ...
Any good ideas ?
So far I've come up with pre-processing the log file and rewriting 302s as
200s, or configuring analog to pull the log files through a program (like the
way it handles zip) and the program changing 302s to 200s on the fly. Both of
which I'd like to avoid as the log files contain over 100 million lines per
month.
Can I request a feature for the addition of "302ISSUCCESS ON" as well for the
next analog release!?
:-)
No, sorry. If 302s counted as successes, each request would count for two
analog requests. You really don't want that.
The easiest thing to do is to look in analog's Redirection Report.
Alternatively, if you don't mind redesigning your site, the "standard" way
to accomplish this is to put an extra parameter on the end of the target
URL, like this:
<a href="/gallery/?from=HomepageSmallButton">
<a href="/gallery/?from=HomepageLargeButton">
The webserver automatically ignores the extra parameter, but includes it in
the logfile. That avoids having the client having to do two round-trips, and
everything is together in the Request Report.
--
Stephen Turner, Cambridge, UK http://homepage.ntlworld.com/adelie/stephen/
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