Rolf Schaufelberger wrote:
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Of course, but what I meant was, can I tell LWP to pass the same
referer string I found in my logfile, to simultate exactly that request ?
I'm sure you can. That "referrer" is just a HTTP header ("Referer:"
with only one r I think), and LWP allows you to add headers to the request.
lwp-request -h
I doubt this will help you however. If you examine your access log, you
probably have lots of such kinds of request, which do not necessarily
bring down your server.
Maybe an easier way :
- on one of your servers (suppose it is called
"yourserver.yourcompany.com"), create a really long path under the
document root and put a html page in it.
Like :
/var/www/htdocs/some/very/long/path/to/a/document/page.html
- in that html page, put a link to your front-end server
- call up that page in a browser, and click on the link.
- then look in your access log
The browser, when you click on the link in the page, sends a request to
your front-end server.
In that request, it will add a header :
Referer:
http://yourserver.yourcompany.com/some/very/long/path/to/a/document/page.html
That's what you see in the log.
