I am not convinced that the value reported via %b is accurate. I have been doing some file downloads and then cancelling them from a Save File As dialogue box, while counting the bytes that go through the network interface. I am seeing at most a small fraction of the payload going through the interface, which is what I expect. I expect it to start transmitting the data and then it will fill up buffers in the client, and so it would stop transmitting until actiion is taken in the dialogue box. However, once the download is cancelled, and the dialogue box is dismissed, I see the HTTP status for the transactionis is shown as 200, and %b is showing the entire length of the file as the "size of the response". The entire file was not sent though, so the response was not the entire file length. Does that sound right?
Ultimately I an trying to determine how many folks really downloaded the whole thing, but counting bytes via the request_rec doesn't seem reliable. Brian McQueen
