durusmail: quixote-users: Adding HTTP_USER_AGENT to access log
Adding HTTP_USER_AGENT to access log
2002-05-23
2002-05-24
Adding HTTP_USER_AGENT to access log
Patrick K. O'Brien
2002-05-24
What are the advantagea of the Quixote log over the regular Apache log? My
concerns are performance degradation, duplication of effort and wasted disk
space. What's the flip side?

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Patrick K. O'Brien
Orbtech

> -----Original Message-----
> From: quixote-users-admin@mems-exchange.org
> [mailto:quixote-users-admin@mems-exchange.org]On Behalf Of Jonathan
> Corbet
> Sent: Friday, May 24, 2002 8:57 AM
> To: quixote-users@mems-exchange.org
> Subject: Re: [Quixote-users] Adding HTTP_USER_AGENT to access log
>
>
> > Should we add the HTTP_USER_AGENT to the Quixote access log?
>
> I would like to see it there.  We like to see the stats on what
> our readers
> are using (still less than 25% Internet Explorer :), and the
> information is
> often useful for other purposes:
>
> - Tracking down that obnoxious robot
> - "Why does our RSS file account for 40% of our hits now?"  It's amazing
>   what those Konqueror users can do to your web stats...
>
> jon
>
> Jonathan Corbet
> Executive editor, LWN.net
> corbet@lwn.net
>
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