[analog-help] blocking OPTION requests

2003-06-20 Thread analog-help
Somebody has been sending OPTION method requests to my Apache server - I've since blocked them out with a limit directive, but I'd like to exclude the ones I already have from my Analog reports. The request in my log looks like: "OPTIONS * HTTP/1.0" This is showing up in my requests report as re

Re: [analog-help] blocking OPTION requests

2003-06-20 Thread analog-help
As you probably already know, Analog usually treats the asterisk (*) as a wildcard. In this case, you want to treat the asterisk as a literal string. There are a couple of places in the documentation that mention "literals". One of these is at "http://www.analog.cx/docs/alias.html"; and another i

Re: [analog-help] blocking OPTION requests

2003-06-23 Thread analog-help
At 03:41 PM 6/20/2003 -0500, Dukewrote: As you probably already know, Analog usually treats the asterisk (*) as a wildcard. In this case, you want to treat the asterisk as a literal string. There are a couple of places in the documentation that mention "literals". One of these is at "http://www.an

Re: [analog-help] blocking OPTION requests

2003-06-24 Thread analog-help
On Mon, 23 Jun 2003, Phil Glatz wrote: > > Thanks, Duke - unfortunately, this appears to only work for alias commands. > > I can't find a consistent syntax to escape literal characters for request > commands. > Yes, PLAIN: only works on the right hand side of an alias. On the left hand side you ca

Re: [analog-help] blocking OPTION requests

2003-06-25 Thread analog-help
At 10:14 AM 6/24/2003 +0100, you wrote: > I can't find a consistent syntax to escape literal characters for request > commands. > Yes, PLAIN: only works on the right hand side of an alias. On the left hand side you can use regular expressions. Try FILEEXCLUDE REGEXP:\* (Actually, that will exclud

Re: [analog-help] blocking OPTION requests

2003-06-26 Thread analog-help
On Wed, 25 Jun 2003, Phil Glatz wrote: > > I'm trying to do something similar with referrer reports - shouldn't >REFREPEXCLUDE REGEXPI:^.*foo.com.*$ > > exclude any URL with foo.com in any place in it from referrer reports? > Well, yes, but you only need REGEXPI:foo.com Actually, it's not qui