On Sun, 20 Aug 1995, Robert S. Thau wrote:
> Hmmm... this effectively implements the "bean count log" which Rob McCool
> brought up on this list ages ago as an idea which had been kicked around
> Netscape. The only quibble I have with it on that score is that a serial
> search through the entire log is going to start to drag on busy sites;
> use of something like DBM might be a better bet. (I haven't ever counted
> the number of distinct URIs which this site gets requests for on an average
> day, but it wouldn't surprise me to see it in the range of a few thousand).
Agreed, a DBM mechanism would be *much* more scalable.
> As to making the counts available to scripts and includes... hoo boy,
> the cache fanciers on HTTP-WG are gonna love *this*.
As a "cache fancier on http-wg" myself, I would say as long as the
XBITHACK options are set right and it doesn't affect the last-modified
time of the document, it's alright with me.
> One final question arises, namely whether to put this in the main
> distribution, or in the contributed modules directory. My personal
> preference is for the latter (it would be nice to have that directory
> a bit less vacant ;-), but I have no *deep* misgivings about seeing it
> as a new experimental module in the main server distribution (we have a
> few of those, too, already).
/contrib, definitely. Before the next release someone should add a
pointer to /contrib from the README and INSTALL files.
> I guess right now, I'm a +0 on it... (the
> main problem being that it does have the potential to drag down large
> sites that try it...).
I'm sure RobH could pull the relevant 10 lines from mod_auth_dbm.c to get
it to use dbm files :)
Brian
--=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=--
brian@organic.com brian@hyperreal.com
http://www.[hyperreal,organic].com/