If you are using Analog to analyze your web server log files, then you might have noticed a recent increase in hits for “Unknown Windows” in the operating system report.
Most of these hits are actually coming from Windows Vista, but as Analog hasn’t been updated in a while, it doesn’t recognize Vista yet. You need to patch the source of Analog for this functionality. Continue reading
While testing the new designs of some of our web sites, we discovered that parts of the sites (mostly banners) were not showing on our Dell desktop computer. We found out that this is due to the ad blocking features in Norton Internet Security. Continue reading
A 404 error message is a type of Internet web server error message. Many times this web service error can be frustrating as generally there is not an error with your computer but rather an error with the Web server. A 404 error message means that your server is not able to find the file that you requested. The file you are looking for may be moved or deleted altogether and if either of these is the case than a 404 error message appears on your computer screen. Continue reading
When you run your log analysis tool, you’ll probably see a lot of requests with an HTTP code 304 (not modified). These requests are coming from browsers which check that the data in their cache is still current.
If you rarely modify your stylesheets, your javascripts and your images, then it might be a good idea to use cache control to let the browsers know on their first request that your data can be stored for a certain number of days before the local cache needs to be refreshed. Continue reading