On Monday, November 15, 2004 10:57 PM [GMT], Partha Bhattacharjee <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> Hmm .. So what I am hearing is that the word AOL in the log does not > necessarily mean that the user was using AOL to browse my website. > > So my question would be. > 1. What is the concrete proof (if any) that the user was using AOL > browser to browse my site. There is no "AOL browser", as far as I know. There is an AOL-customized version of IE. (I'm no expert on this, as AOL isn't a major source of traffic for the sites I look after, so I've never bothered to look). If you want to examine AOL users, I'd be inclined to look at hits from AOL IP addresses, but bear in mind that AOL uses proxy servers, which means that any analysis of requests by AOL users for static content will be incomplete, because many such requests by AOL users will be served by the AOL proxy servers, and will never make it into your logs in the first place. > 2. How do I get a report on this. Well the most obvious way would be resolve the DNS addresses in your logs, and then do a HOSTINCLUDE *.aol.com, so that only requests that came from aol.com addresses would be counted. > It will help if you could tell me what exact changes are to be done in > the configuration file for this to work. Thanks, but no thanks. It might be worth your while erading http://www.analog.cx/docs/webworks.html before spending too much time analyzing AOL requests, however you choose to define an AOL erquest. Aengus +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives +------------------------------------------------------------------------
