Statistics problem

[Paul W. Frields]

On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 04:52:20PM +0300, Axel Thimm wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:57:50AM -0400, Paul W. Frields wrote:
> > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 08:44:15AM -0400, Jon Stanley wrote:
> > > On Tue, Apr 28, 2009 at 8:29 AM, Paul W. Frields <stickster at gmail.com> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > uniq-ing the IP addresses doing the downloading.  That method has the
> > > > potential to cut out legitimate, repetitive downloads from inside a
> > > > firewall.  I'd feel better cutting those ticks out if they were
> > > 
> > > I'm not sure if you can see this in our logs or not (you might have to
> > > have the individual mirrors logs :( ), but if the response code is a
> > > 206, that means it was a RANGE request - to download part of a file.
> > > It's not at all uncommon for a download manager to open 20-30
> > > connections to download the same file for the same user.,
> > > 
> > > So I'd opt for the conservative approach of uniques as well.
> > 
> > To clarify, I'm already filtering these out on a 302 code.  How would
> > that change your opinion, if at all?
> 
> Isn't 302 a (temp) relocation? Why would filtering out 302 also filter
> out 206?

I misused a pronoun -- I am specifically *grepping for 302*, which I
did not state clearly.  Did anyone look at the commands page I linked
earlier?

https://fedoraproject.org/wiki/Statistics/Commands

> Maybe the cleanest solution is to count downloaded bytes and divide by
> image size. That way you properly count ranged downloads.

Command suggestions are very welcome.  I really don't have time to
delve into this incredibly deeply at the moment.

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