On 2/12/07, Chris 'Xenon' Hanson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
1. Is HE.net making a mistake in using access_log to count bandwidth?
If they are doing it naively using the default log format, then yes they are making a mistake.
2. What exactly does the number after the 206 code in the access_log mean? Is it simply the range the client _requested_ via the Range header? In which case, it has no real relationship to how much data was _actually_ transferred?
Yes, it is the size of the object the client requested. A more accurate number for billing can be generated by apache if you ask for it: http://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.2/mod/mod_logio.html Note that the download accelerators you are seeing are often more malicious than you seem to believe. In order to speed up downloads, they often make multiple simultaneous requests over multiple connections, with overlapping ranges. (They often simply request everything from byte "x" to the end of the file, where "x" varies according to the connection.) They then simply drop the connections when they have what they want. So even on a perfect network connection, you will see total "amount requested" far exceeding the size of the file. Joshua. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] " from the digest: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
