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Date: Thu, 22 Apr 2004 12:22:07 -0700 (PDT)
From: "John P. Dodge" <dodge@cruciate.ca.boeing.com>
To: users@httpd.apache.org
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Subject: Re: [users@httpd] how to log the no. of bytes transferred

On Thu, 22 Apr 2004, Apache wrote:

> Dear John,
>
>          Thanks for the reply . I have tested it out with it . But I have
> found that it actually logs the file size instead of the actual no. of by=
tes
> transferred.
>
>         In fact I like to log the actual no.of bytes transferred so that =
I
> would be able to know if the user completely downloaded the file or not.
>
> Any ideas ??
>
>
> Thanking You.
>
> Binaya
>
> > On Wed, 21 Apr 2004, Apache wrote:
> >
> > >             I am using apache 2.0.40 and whenever a user downloads a
> > > mpeg file from our server, I would like to know only the successfully
> > > completed downloads.
> > >
> > >         I have password protected the site so that only the
> > > authenticated user can download it. But I have a problem that if some
> > > authenticated user downloads it partially, how do i log the actual no=
=2E
> > > of bytes he download.
> > >
> > >
> > The bytes transferrer is the last number in the access log line. I do t=
his
> > too, with a Perl script to post process the log file.
> >
> > See: http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_log_config.html
> >
> >
If the number in the "bytes transferred" field is the sane as the file
size then that is how many bytes Apache sent to the O/S. For example if a
client hits the cancel during the transfer the byte count will be less.

As Joshua pointed out you may want to look at mod_logio.

http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_logio.html


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"Mon a=E9roglisseur est plein d'anguilles"
John P. Dodge
Boeing Shared Services


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