NOTE: This list has been shut down due to too much spam.
....Roy
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Introduction
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wwwstat, including problem reports, interim fixes, suggestions
for features, and contributions. The mailing list address is
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and administrivia [including (un)subscribe requests] should be sent to
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This list exists for users to help each other. Since the author is unable
to provide personal support to all the wwwstat users, this list acts as
a medium for people who need help to contact those who are willing to help,
and for people who would like to contribute new features or language
translations to the wwwstat package to talk to other people with similar
needs or ideas.
Please read the guidelines for posting (below) before sending a message
to the list.
What is wwwstat?
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wwwstat is a package for analyzing httpd (WWW server) logfiles.
More information about it can be obtained from the distribution site:
Guidelines for posting messages to
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This list is NOT for discussion of general Perl or WWW or CGI issues.
It is ONLY for discussion about the wwwstat package and enhancements
to that package. It is also reasonable to discuss the gwstat package
(or any package that post-processes wwwstat output), since that type
of software is intimately tied to wwwstat's development. If the problem
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Message from the Author
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Hi, I hope you are enjoying wwwstat. As you may know, wwwstat was one of
the first log analysis packages for the World Wide Web and has not changed
at all between version 1.01's release (April 1994) and October 1996.
In fact, it has probably been the most stable piece of software on the Web,
mostly because I have been busy writing the IETF standards for parsing
URLs and the Hypertext Transfer Protocol, participating in the Apache
server project, and doing the little things associated with being a
graduate student.
wwwstat-2.0 is a major upgrade in functionality, with only minor changes
in the output format. Hopefully, what wwwstat generates can still be read
by the gwstat (and similar) programs. What I have tried to do is incorporate
all of the features requested by users over the past 2 years, without
changing the fundamental benefits provided by the program. I have also
included some additional, example scripts for monthly log rotation and
looking at the NCSA-type error_log.
However, I have also reached the end of my ability to further support the
wwwstat package and its thousands of users. After 2.0 is finalized, I will
cease all work on wwwstat and let its users, through this mailing list,
guide future developments. I will be working on additional web-based
tools for software engineering, so will likely apply them to the wwwstat
project when they are available, but the actual work of providing patches
and assisting new/old users will be done by people on this list. In many
ways, this is an experiment in freeware development.
In other words, the future of wwwstat is in your hands. Good luck,
...Roy T. Fielding
http://www.ics.uci.edu/~fielding/