From: Regoli, Michael <[log in to unmask]>
Date: Mon, Oct 12, 2015 at 12:11 PM

Daniel, the “change log” (of updates to the code) shows this entry
under the version 7.0 release:

"Added Download tracking where certain mime types are defined as
downloads and HTTP status 206 is tracked as download continuation"

For more, see: http://www.awstats.org/docs/awstats_changelog.txt

Depending how deeply you wish to dive into this, you could take a
couple different approaches. First would be to not make “fast web
view” PDFs available for download (where chunks are requested, esp. on
mobile or tablets). Another approach would be to reduce/block/divert,
by using Apache rewrite directives, multiple header requests to a
special page.

Assuming mod_rewrite is enabled in your Apache configuration, an
example rewrite rule, to block/intercept multiple requests would be to
use the “RewriteCond %{HTTP:Range}” instruction.  Check out the Apache
docs (http://httpd.apache.org/docs/) for your version on how to
implement rewrite rules.

Good luck!

—Michael Regoli . [log in to unmask]
Indiana University Press




On 10/11/15, 7:07 PM, "LIBLICENSE" <[log in to unmask]> wrote:

>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