Re: * in url Archive Section

Roy T. Fielding (fielding@kiwi.ics.uci.edu)
Wed, 20 May 1998 14:17:53 -0700


>If anyone has a spare momment, I was wondering 
>why wwwstat would report the following for urls: 
>
>
>%Reqs %Byte  Bytes Sent  Requests   Archive Section
>----- ----- ------------ -------- |------------------------------------
> 0.00  0.00          600        3 | *

My guess is that your log has three requests like

   OPTIONS * HTTP/1.1

which is sometimes used to probe a server for supported options.

....Roy