Icecast Streaming Media Server

luca066 · Joined: 01 Dec 2011 Posts: 42

Hi Karl,

I've a question about the access log file.
I've noted that on the log file are reported many times the same row for a client.
Let me do an example:

karlH · Code Warrior Joined: 13 Jun 2005 Posts: 5476 Location: UK

Many players do open a connection multiple times, often with different headers sent like range headers or maybe with and without the metadata request. You can certainly see something like that happening for say the ID3 tag at the end of a file but as there is no length returned then such requests would not be possible. Yes it is wasteful and annoying, but the access log is reflecting the state of requests made.

In the KH tree I can flag a client to not log in the access log, by doing things like <skip-accesslog>true</skip-accesslog> in a <mount> but for none useful attempts, it would need something more fine grained, a client with a range request is not enough as it could be a range request on a file, a minimum threshold of bytes sent could be another but that would often block out other small file requests. Soi it would need a combination check where you would get onto a stream first. It's one of those, how best to do kind of things

karl.