sc-bytes

log file showing no bytes sent when showing home page.

[Ash]

Hi, I was looking at my logs came across the fact that when the home page - '/default.asp' is requested from one of our sites the log file shows that there are no bytes sent. This is an actual example from one of the logs - GET /default.asp - 200 0 497 63 showing the URI stem, no query stem, a succesful request, 0 bytes sent, 497 bytes received, in .63 seconds. The entry in the logs is always the same for this page as far as bytes sent are concerned. I cannot understand how this could be. Surely any page has a certain amount of data that needs to be sent for it to be viewed? Any ideas?

[sugarkane]

I've read somewhere that IIS will report a zero byte size when the asp file is clicked on from a directory listing - ie when the server lists the contents of a folder and you click on one of the files.

Unfortunately I can't confirm this, but could it be a possibility?

[Ash]

Hi Sugarkane, do you mean like when you just get a hyperlinked list of the folder names on a particular site and then after clicking on one of the names you get a list of pages within that folder and click through from there? If so thats not whats happening as the referrer can be from anywhere including the sites that link to us and also all the images that are sent with the page are showing bytes sent. I have noticed that when the page is spidered then there are actually bytes sent just not when an actual visitor views the page. Thanks for your reply.