[6671] in www-talk@info.cern.ch
RE: Potentially serious error in unix server http logging.
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob Denny)
Wed Nov 16 20:07:49 1994
Date: Thu, 17 Nov 1994 01:22:30 +0100
Errors-To: listmaster@www0.cern.ch
Reply-To: rdenny@netcom.com
From: Bob Denny <rdenny@netcom.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www0.cern.ch>
>[...]
>The problem comes in handling cases where a file request is aborted
>by the client by the client dropping its end of the connection.
>This case is sometimes erroneously logged as being successful even
>when the disconnect is detected; however, for a large class of cases
>(including he one I was actually interested in, demmit), the client
>disconnection is never discovered by the server.
Neither of these happen with the Windows Web server. It immediately
detects a closure by the client. No entry is made in the access log
unless the transaction completes, including successfully sending the
server's response (whatever that is) back to the client.
-- Bob (defensive mode today)
