On Thu, 28 Sep 2006 09:22:00 +1200
Volker Kuhlmann <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> > > And that causes repeated downloads of the same .pdf how??
> 
> > ...by repeatedly rescanning your website, and repeatedly picking up
> > the same things to upload, which is what you'd expect.
> 
> No index page was fetched in between the .pdf downloads of the same
> .pdf.
> 
> > Tell you what, why not just change it to something more sensible, and
> > see if the problem goes away?
> 
> I don't get you here - why can't I have a link on my page to
> http://volker.dnsalias.net/ ? That's what links are all about...
> (And it wasn't my own website)
You can, and it obviously works. But it's inefficient, requiring dns where not 
necessary as it's on the same server ( and actually a link to the current page 
), and it *MAY* confuse a googlebot into repeatedly downloading files.
> 
> C.H. - cable is always static. Besides google spiders by website, not
> IP, so shouldn't matter if it was dynamic. All the .pdf are static
> content, so playing with expiry times doesn't seem to be a good idea to
> me? I haven't set any expiry anywhere.
> 
> Here's another example from this morning:
> 
> [20060928T051227+1200] -|[EMAIL PROTECTED] 461240 200 - 201 
> "/linux/presentation/Photo-Linux-part2.pdf" -
> [20060928T051542+1200] -|[EMAIL PROTECTED] 255782 200 - 204 
> "/linux/presentation/Photo-Linux-part2-notes.pdf" -
> [20060928T052217+1200] -|[EMAIL PROTECTED] 597 200 - 0 "/Jokes/html/" -
> [20060928T051857+1200] -|[EMAIL PROTECTED] 461240 200 - 209 
> "/linux/presentation/Photo-Linux-part2.pdf" -
> [20060928T052218+1200] -|[EMAIL PROTECTED] 255782 200 - 229 
> "/linux/presentation/Photo-Linux-part2-notes.pdf" -
> [20060928T052550+1200] -|[EMAIL PROTECTED] 461240 200 - 100 
> "/linux/presentation/Photo-Linux-part2.pdf" -
> [20060928T052842+1200] -|[EMAIL PROTECTED] 255782 200 - 200 
> "/linux/presentation/Photo-Linux-part2-notes.pdf" -
> [20060928T053817+1200] -|[EMAIL PROTECTED] 0 304 - 0 
> "/soft/patch/suse8.1/susewmif-colours-fix-8.1.diff" -
> [20060928T053503+1200] -|[EMAIL PROTECTED] 255782 200 - 199 
> "/linux/presentation/Photo-Linux-part2-notes.pdf" -
> [20060928T054123+1200] -|[EMAIL PROTECTED] 255782 200 - 205 
> "/linux/presentation/Photo-Linux-part2-notes.pdf" -
> 
> Unless apache isn't logging properly? Log the size of the file, not the
> number of bytes actually transferred?
> 
> Volker
> 
> -- 
> Volker Kuhlmann                       is list0570 with the domain in header
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Why not try a little empirical testing, and maybe we'll all learn something 
from it?

Steve

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