Re: usage stats

ist Administration (server@pandora.sf.ca.us)
Mon, 19 Apr 1993 11:15:55 PDT


On Apr 19, 10:39am, Edward Vielmetti wrote:
} Note also that gopher statistics are inflated - there's double counting
} (and double sending) of bytes when a gopher server fetches a file by
} FTP and then gophers it to the client.

Not quite Ed, its counted once, when it shouldnt be counted at all! The
gopher-ftp gateway -> ftp server hop doesnt get counted.
}
} This is a clear case where high byte counts should be seen as a sign
} of design defects not wide use...

Agreed! I posted a patch that fixes this defect for the Unix gopher
client.

- Mitra