Nick Wilcox wrote:
about Mikes problem with getting multiple hits in his apache logs.
The problem is with your body tag. You have background="#808080" instead of backgroundcolor="#808080". The background attribute is used for images so the browser is going back to the server looking for an image with the same URL as the page.
BINGO :-)
Yes Nick that was the problem. The perl script was putting out:
<body background="#808080">
and thus exactly as you said the browser was going back for the second bite. Would also explain why it was just a second or two afterwards to - just enough time for the browser to get to the point where it needed to call up the image to render.
I changed it to: <body bgcolor="#808080"> and now there is just one hit.
I was looking in the entirely wrong place.
Interestingly though Apache was returning a 200 for that request. So as far as the web server was concerned the request was served OK.
Thanks heaps to Nick and Amos also.
Mike -- Mike Lake Caver, Linux enthusiast and interested in anything technical. -- SLUG - Sydney Linux User's Group Mailing List - http://slug.org.au/ Subscription info and FAQs: http://slug.org.au/faq/mailinglists.html
