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