[MOBY-dev] Holy cow! Lotsa hits!

[José María Fernández González]

You should have some way to distinguish automated tools entries from the other 
(with some help from the tool developers, of course). As every request is done 
through HTTP, you could use User Agent signature recorded in Apache logs. For 
instance, each tool could use a different 'User Agent' variant, so they could 
be distinguished, or if a program/tool is going can issue requests related to 
maintenance, it should be advisable to alter its 'User Agent' signature in 
some way based on their mode.

	Just my 2 euro-cents.
		José María

Martin Senger wrote:
> Well, let me be more realistic. I do not like so called "Potemkin's"
> villages (see google if it does not ring any bell). Of course, I am glad
> that BioMoby is growing, and I will support it in any possible way. And I
> also understand that some facts are good for PR and for funding agencies.
> 
> But... For us, we should be more precise what these hits actually mean. For
> example, I assume (please correct me if I am wrong) that every time somebody
> updates her local cash from Dashboard, it increases the hit numbers. Also,
> all these automated tools may influence how many times the registry is
> accessed. Which gives us a distorted picture.
> 
> Better, possibly, would be to agree to an HTTP agent name (or names) that we
> can use in this automatic tools - and to separate in the statistics *all*
> hits (good for funding agencies) from the other hits where we do not include
> requests from this (or these) HTTP agent(s).
> 
> Just my "c's,
> Martin
> 

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