Reading Log Entries

[keyplyr]

Example:

166.121.36.7 - - [18/Sep/2003:01:04:15 -0700] "GET /folder/blue.js HTTP/1.1" 200 403 "http://www.domain.com/" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows 98)"

IO know the 200 roughly means the request was filled (OK)

But the second number 403 represents the request being denied because it is Forbidden.

How can these two Codes be present in the same log entry? Thanks.

[GeorgeGG]

I thought the second number was the size of the file?

GGG

[jim_w]

GeorgeGG it is. I also have a file that gives a 200 but is 403 bytes in size. It looked funny to me at first thought too until I loaded the file from the address line in IE, saw the page, checked the log, then checked the size of the file. Of course for the last 7 days I had, literally, 4 hours of sleep a day and things start happening to humans after that ;-)) You have to admit, the probability of having a file 403 bytes in size, based on what the average file size on the internet should be, is not very likely and could throw one for a second or two.

BTW GeorgeGG, great tool on your page thanks. I do feel kind of guilty though using it for free. OK, not guilty to pay you, but, ya know.

[keyplyr]

Except that file is over 1k, and the second number is 403 on over 60 completely different log entries.

[jim_w]

Wellllll, maybe it is a different problem then? ;-))