Re: [Summary-Talk] Request not showing up - don't know why

[Jason Linhart <jason@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Summary counts Lotus-Notes as a robot, so if you have "Ignore known and
likely robots" turned on then those requests are getting filtered.

Lotus-Notes is a difficult case, because it includes both normal client
functions and robot functions, both of which appear to use the same
agent string. The previous time I checked, most of the traffic from
Lotus-Notes I observed at my sites looked robot like so I categorized it
as a robot in Summary. Looking again today it seem more balanced, some
traffic that looks like robot behavior and some that looks like a person
browsing.

I'm not sure which way of categorizing Lotus-Notes is more "correct". At
the sites I work with it accounts for less than one one hundredth of one
percent of the total traffic, so I haven't really worried about it much.

If anyone thinks that Lotus-Notes should get counted as a browser,
despite it's robot like features, speak up and I will think about
changing it's classification in future versions.

Jason


Sean Harrison wrote:
> 
> I'm interested to know why you say taht all my request examples (except
> for the one that did show up in a report) are from robots.  In fact
> these requests are from IBM's Lotus Notes v.6 clients in Hamburg and
> London.
> 
> www/access_log.1112832000:84.177.219.98 - - [07/Apr/2005:03:19:25 -0500]
> "GET /LornaTestKrings.gif HTTP/1.0" 404 2493 "-" "Mozilla/4.0
> (compatible; Lotus-Notes/6.0; Windows-NT)"
> 
> Does Summary think they are robots, because I have the Ignore option on?

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