Thanks for the response. I'm not using Apache - I'm using IIS, but I can create custom handling for the log. I could create a hashed character string that would be unique for each IP + Filename combination and write it out to the log as a custom field.
What option in Analog would I use to report based on that ? >-----Original Message----- >From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aengus >Sent: Wednesday, July 12, 2006 10:25 AM >To: Support for analog web log analyzer >Subject: Re: [analog-help] Unique downloads: combination of Unique IP + file > >On Wednesday, July 12, 2006 12:53 PM [EDT], >Gal Ori Steinitz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Is it possible to get a "unique downloads" number that would be >> calculated by taking the unique combinations of IP + files ? >> >> I am seeing multiple requests for the same file by the same host, >> because of new podcast clients that download the files in small >> chunks. (Sometimes as many as 10,000 separate records for the same >> file). >> >> Needless to say this is skewing my reporting and now I can't get a >> real number anymore representing the number of files people have >> downloaded. >> >> >> By importing the raw log into a database and doing a select distinct >> on those two columns I was able to get a real number again. Can >> Analog do something similar ? > >No. This is a version of FAQ 128: >http://analog.cx/docs/faq.html#faq128 > >> The podcast clients that cause this register a status "206" instead of >> "200" in the log. I saw on the Analog mailing list archives a >> reference to a similar situation with a PDF file - however in that >> case each download was preceded by a single status "200", therefore >> it was possible to simply exclude the "206" and get a real number. In >> my case, these podcast clients only register status "206" for all >> requests, and never "200". > >Are you logging referrers? Is the referrer for the first part different from >the other parts? If your web server can create a "sessionID" that can be >logged, that might be a solution too. If you are using Apache, you might be >able to create a custom logformat that includes an entry that concatenates >the IP address and filename together. > >Aengus +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Analog Documentation: http://analog.cx/docs/Readme.html | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general +------------------------------------------------------------------------
