The following reply was made to PR mod_log-any/3231; it has been noted by GNATS.
From: Marc Slemko <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Klaus Johannes Rusch <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: mod_log-any/3231: Some log records are out of order Date: Sun, 18 Oct 1998 10:06:55 -0700 (PDT) On 18 Oct 1998, Klaus Johannes Rusch wrote: > >Description: Some log records are out of order, showing earlier > access last, e.g. (anonymized) > > somehost.domain.com - - [16/Oct/1998:17:07:00 -0400] "GET > /Directory/image/bg.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 569 > "http://server.domain.com/Directory/page.html"; "Mozilla/4.07 [en] (Win98; U)" > somehost.domain.com - - [16/Oct/1998:17:07:02 -0400] "GET > /Directory/image/story.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 9554 > "http://server.domain.com/Directory/page.html"; "Mozilla/4.07 [en] (Win98; U)" > somehost.domain.com - - [16/Oct/1998:17:07:02 -0400] "GET > /Directory/image/welcome.gif HTTP/1.0" 200 1440 > "http://server.domain.com/Directory/page.html"; "Mozilla/4.07 [en] (Win98; U)" > somehost.domain.com - - [16/Oct/1998:17:07:14 -0400] "GET > /Directory/page.html HTTP/1.0" 200 24290 "-" "Mozilla/4.07 [en] (Win98; U)" > > page.html has accessed first, yet in the logs shows up last (possibly > due to persistant connection with the HTML file being the first > request, and logging occurring only after that request and subsequent > subrequests have terminated?) How do you know that page.html was accessed first? It is quite practical that if the client is using multiple connections then it will start downloading the HTML in one, and start getting various images in others as it parses it. In this case, the images are shorter than the HTML so it is very possible that they complete first.
