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Date sent: Wed, 17 Feb 1999 14:21:24 -0500
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Subject: [analog-help] Corrupt Log File Entries
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> I've taken a close look at my log file entries that Analog is reporting as
> corrupt (unable to process) and discovered they have something in common. The
> referrer portion includes embedded quotes. I've included below a sample of some
I am averaging about 1 a month of these type of requests, not
really to big of a deal. I can see where it would be a nuisance in
your case, though. The only thing that I could come up with was to
make a program that would be to remove the extra quotes and
perhaps replace them with something else.
While looking at your sample log files I came up with something
that should fix any lines with that problem. I am not sure what to
replace the offending quotes with yet, a blank would be the
simplest I suppose.
Anyways the solution is to preprocess the log files with a program
that removes the quotes and replace them with something else.
The algorithm I came up with is this: (in pseudo code)
open logfile
while not end of file
read record
find first quote of the referer field
count = 1
while not end of line
find next quote
count = count+1
wend
if count = 6 then
find second quote (from start of referer)
replace with space
find third quote
replace with space
end if
write record
wend
close log file
end
Of course this is only pseudo code and would have to be converted
to a programming language and compiled. I can't see why it
wouldn't work though. I could put the source code together in C and
make it available once I get it worked out.
As to including it in Analog, I would have to go through the source
to see if it is worth while or even doable. Stephen could probably
answer this one better than me.
Take Care
Jim Foley
The Information Wizard
http://momp.hypermart.net/
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