In article <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> you write: ... > So, a FULL 4% of the requests from my server are HEADs. > ;-) Wow :) > You don't actually use Arachne, do you... Yes, > cache filenames are assigned by time -- how many > seconds since some date in 1970 (31 Jan?). Offline (stripped down to a pure viewer) all the time, online never. I did test it a few times online, but for my purposes it was too slow and didn't give me enough information about the progress of the request. > > An additional trick I like is for each file to have it's URL added at > > the top of the cached file in a comment. > > Contents of 996179725.HTM.http: > > <TITLE>HTTP header of http://wizard.dyndns.org/</TITLE><PRE> > HTTP/1.1 200 OK > Date: Thu, 26 Jul 2001 20:35:15 GMT > Server: Apache/1.3.12 (Unix) (Red Hat/Linux) PHP/3.0.15 > Last-Modified: Fri, 13 Jul 2001 14:03:22 GMT > ETag: "3058c-ab8-3b4effaa" > Accept-Ranges: bytes > Content-Length: 2744 > Connection: close > Content-Type: text/html > </PRE><HR>URL:<A > HREF="http://wizard.dyndns.org/">http://wizard.dyndns.org/</A><BR>Local:<A > HREF="file:/home/steve/.arachne/cache/996179725.HTM">/home/steve/.arachne/ca >che/996179725.HTM</A><HR> > > So, you can see the *.http file relates the original > filename to the cached filename... which is how the > image links are maintained within the cache. > (also note that the info in the *.http file is nearly > identical to the info returned by the HEAD command, > hence my mistaken earlier statement that a HEAD > command always precedes a GET command) Thanks for that. I don't think that DOS has filenames of that format :) I don't recall any files with that sort of content either, but it's been a long time since I'd have seen them so that doesn't mean a lot. Does it track and log redirection ? Alex. -- ____________________________ _______________________________ ( Alex Venn ) ( Success has many fathers, ) (_) [EMAIL PROTECTED] (____) but failure is an orphan. (_)