Odd www log entries: Accelerated browsing the culprit?
Bill McGonigle
bill at bfccomputing.com
Mon Nov 12 15:28:34 EST 2007
On Nov 11, 2007, at 09:52, VirginSnow at vfemail.net wrote:
> Could I be seeing some sort of web acceleration technology?
or a decelerator like Privoxy.
Also, perhaps Apache doesn't log on HTTP request but when the request
finishes? Some weird combinations of pipelining, pre-fetching, and
keep-alive could get you all kinds of logfile output order variations.
> If visitors to my sites ARE using acellerated browsing, I want to be
> able to detect this and redirect them to another page (i.e., a 403
> error). Is there any (server-independent, at least theoretical) way
> to do this?
What do you mean 'server independent'? Your own inline proxy?
Squid can handle arbitrary unix scripts as filters. You can tag
extra '&foo=unixtime' things onto your URL's and then filter them
subsequently, but I'm not sure why you'd want to stop people from
saving you bandwidth.
-Bill
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