Re: [Summary-Talk] Processing logs before 2004-follow up

[jason <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 5/10/04 11:14 PM Ron Charles (clearsailing@mac.com) wrote:

>After much testing, the culprit seems to be the "Ignore known and 
>likely robots" on the filtering page...when I remove that filter 
>everything works as expected. It seems I did not use that filter on the 
>previous reports and I should have. Now the obvious question is why 
>does that filter cause such havoc? Is there an alternate way to try to 
>screen out the same information? Is there something in the way the 
>server collects information?

Robot filtering works off of the agent field in the log files. If the 
agent field is blank then Summary treats that request as coming from a 
likely robot, and it gets filtered. This can cause a problem if agent 
information does not appear in your log files, which is what I have to
imagine is happening in your situation.

Jason
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