Too many logs !

[moldar]

Hi !

I am using the latest version of Wingate HTTP Proxy on a Windows Xp Computer.
My problem is Wingate logs too many events : for example, when someone logs on http://www.yahoo.com it logs http://www.yahoo.com + http://us.i1.ymg.com + ... + one url for each hit.
And so the log is totally unexploitable.
Is that possible to log only the first URL ?

Thx !

[olaf.krause]

Hi !

I am using the latest version of Wingate HTTP Proxy on a Windows Xp Computer.
My problem is Wingate logs too many events : for example, when someone logs on http://www.yahoo.com it logs http://www.yahoo.com + http://us.i1.ymg.com + ... + one url for each hit.
And so the log is totally unexploitable.
Is that possible to log only the first URL ?

Thx !

What do you mean with one for each hit?
If a page contains e.g picture from other doamins your browser might request these (depending on your settings). AFAIK wingate does only log pages requested from your clients. How should wingate distinguish between domains that are "main" domains and pages that were subsequently requested by the client since they belong to the content (images etc.) of the main page?????

[moldar]

What do you mean with one for each hit?
If a page contains e.g picture from other doamins your browser might request these (depending on your settings). AFAIK wingate does only log pages requested from your clients. How should wingate distinguish between domains that are "main" domains and pages that were subsequently requested by the client since they belong to the content (images etc.) of the main page?????

By "each hit", i mean each picture from others domains.
I know it's normal for Wingate not to be able to distinguish pages requested by the client and others pages, but how could i know which website my users really visit ?? Is that possible to get only the first URL ?
Thx !

[adrien]

Hi

WinGate can't tell which is a main page or a subsequent request, image etc.

if you want more information from the log files, there are several log analyser programs around that analyse WinGate logs, and will give you stats and info about the sites visited by your users.

Adrien

[moldar]

Thx for your answers.
But i don't think any Log Analyzer could help me to solve my problem :(
Am i the only one trying to determine which websites were really requested by my users ???
:D

[deftech]

I suppose in short, the answer to your question is no. :)

I wrote a vb program to parse the logs, extracting lines based on input criteria, like ip and username.

I'm not sure what you mean by "which websites were really requested by my users", since the logs show which IP and user is requesting the first URL in the log.


10/10/06 08:55:35 10.0.0.1 sondra 0000029345 Requested: http://www.google.com/maps?
10/10/06 08:55:36 10.0.0.1 sondra 0000029388 Requested: http://mt3.google.com/mt?
10/10/06 08:55:36 10.0.0.1 sondra 0000029383 Requested: http://mt3.google.com/mt?
10/10/06 08:55:36 10.0.0.1 sondra 0000029389 Requested: http://mt0.google.com/mt?
10/10/06 08:55:36 10.0.0.1 sondra 0000029387 Requested: http://mt3.google.com/mt?
10/10/06 08:55:36 10.0.0.1 sondra 0000029386 Requested: http://mt0.google.com/mt?

Obviously I can tell what server Sondra orginally started going to by the first url.

Do you not have usernames setup, or does your log just show 'guest'.

[moldar]

Hum... you're right !
Could you give me your vb code please ? :D
Thx !