> The files actually exist on the server. I just don’t want to use the > bandwidth to return the data. I have moved files into the cloud to > reduce my datacentre bandwidth costs but i still want to keep the > logging happening on the server
I can't think of a worse, less meaningful/reliable choice for logging than what you've described -- playing a guessing-game with an HTTP connection. Send a request to a zero-length file (you can even send back a 204), passing the logging data in the query string. -- S.