From: Daniel Feenberg <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Fri, 9 Oct 2015 11:28:38 -0400

On Thu, 8 Oct 2015, LIBLICENSE wrote:

> From: Eric Hellman <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Thu, 8 Oct 2015 11:30:44 -0400
>
> I think you want
>
> http://www.awstats.org/


Possibly, but I don't see anything on the website to suggest they have
addressed this issue. Do you have experience to confirm that they
have?

daniel feenberg
NBER


> Eric Hellman
> President, Free Ebook Foundation
> Founder, Unglue.it https://unglue.it/
> http://go-to-hellman.blogspot.com/
> twitter: @gluejar
>
>
> On Oct 6, 2015, at 4:45 PM, LIBLICENSE <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> From: Daniel Feenberg <[log in to unmask]>
> Date: Mon, 5 Oct 2015 16:24:37 -0400
>
> We are a publisher and wish to count downloads by subscriber ip
> address. Inspection of the Apache logfile is discouraging. Some
> browsers seem to issue a request for the entire document (easy to
> count, the return code in the log file is 200), some make multiple
> requests for parital content (return code 206) and some do both for
> the same document at nearly the same time. That is, first request the
> entire document, and then a series of partial requests. I don't know
> how common that is, but we can reproduce the behavior with Firefox at
> least.
>
> Can anyone refer us to either 1) software that can provide a proper
> count or 2) information about how to process the log to obtain an
> accurate count?
>
> We have studied the "Counter" website and found software to analyze
> counter-compatible logs, but no software to create them from standard
> Apache logs. It appears that creating such software would be a major
> undertaking.
>
> Thanks for you attention
>
> Daniel Feenberg
> NBER