Below is a list of all of the changes, new features, and bugs fixed, since the last release version of WWWStat4Mac. For a full version history see the document http://sodium.ch.man.ac.uk/pages/wwwstat4mac_docs/wwwstat4mac_history.html.
New Features.
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None.
Bugs Fixed.
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Fixed a problem with starting up on 68K machines.
Fixed a problem with the Autoprocess dialog box on some machines, that could cause the set button to become inactive after choosing a file.
Fixed a problem with notifications appearing when the machine was autoprocessing. These should not appear now.
What's New Since WWWStat4Mac v1.5
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New Features.
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･Added date range processing. This allows you to specify the range of dates in the log that you want to process. These dates can either be relative or absolute. Examples
This will process all data for March and April in 1997.
process_range -00/01/0000:00:00:00 now
This will process that last months data.
process_range 01/01/1997:00:00:00 now
This will do everything in a log for this year.
process_range -10/00/0001:00:00:00 now
This will process everything in a log from 10 days and 1 year previous to todays date and time. As you can see you can either specify two dates or one date and 'now'. 'now' is taken to be the exact date and time when the processing starts. If the first string starts with a minus sign '-' then it means that the times are relative to the second time. So -00/01/0000:00:00:00 means 1 previous month. The format is dd/mm/yyyy:hh:mm:ss
***NOTE*** the order of day and month. The time should use the 24hour clock.
･Added users stats. Now you can track accesses by user. This is for use when you have access controls on your Webserver and users have to supply a username and password to access the information. You can find out which users have logged in and how many times etc.
This means that there are now these new options.
user_inclusion
user_exclusion
top_users
max_users (up to 10000)
user_stats
user_alias
･All of the following fields in the log can be included,excluded and aliased.
1. sites
2. files
3. referers
4. users.
(See the sample prefs file for a full list of all of the options available).
･Increased the number of file_types and aliases that can be tracked. Both up to 5000 from 50!
･Implemented exclusions so that any item on a line will exclude the line. This makes the file_and_site and site_and_file options obsolete. It means that the confusion caused by these two options will be removed.
･Added two templates WWW_GLOBALTOTALDATA and WWW_GLOBALTOTALHITS which represent the TOTAL amount of data shown in the log irrespective of exclusions etc. The second number is equivalent to the number of lines in the log for a perfect log with no comment lines etc (Webstar !! Lines).
･Added support for more natural naming of some of the preference options. The options ****_inclusion ****_exclusion and ****_alias can now also be expressed as more natural strings such as include_****, exclude_**** and alias_****.
The reason for this is it's more natural to take about including a file than a ﾒfile_inclusionﾓ which leads to a more natural name for the option of ﾒinclude_fileﾓ. Both forms of these options will continue to be supported, so any prefs files that you already have will continue to work without modification.
(Where **** is either file,site,user,referer or referrer).
･Added a title to the processing window so that the user can see what is being processed.
･Added a process dialog showing which template is being processed.
･Added a warning dialog if a template file couldn't be found.
･Added Balloon help for the major dialogs and the menus.
･Added menu items for sending email and looking at website.
Bugs Fixed.
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･Fixed some small memory leaks that could effect users who had automatic processing on very very long times.
･Fixed a bug in the Common log processing. If process_bad_lines was on it made no difference!
･Fixed a bug in the processing of WebStar logs if the agent came first! Agents have spaces in them and this confused the parser!
･Fixed a bug in the file comparison routines. Wouldn't compare strings with trailing wildcards if they were the same length.
･Fixed a bug in the code that collects agent stats. If the agent string was more than 80 chars then we could end up duplicating the information as each new occurence of the same string would be logged as a separate agent. Have increased the length of agent strings to 255 chars.
･Fixed a little loophole in the cache processing that mean't we could process logs smaller than the ones we last cached for.
･Fixed a possible bug in the SIVC code. Somehow the creator could get mangled and the desktop lookups would fail!
･Fixed some problems with StringOf code with new version of codewarrior.
･Fixed a bug so that if site stats are off the other stuff still works.
･Added a workaround to a bug with Webstar log files where WebStar crashes and doesn't start a new line!
･Fixed a spelling mistake in the domain names.
･Fixed a bug in the template processing that mean't that the template files were opened but never closed. After a prolonged period this could lead to a system error with too many open files!
･Added checking to see if domains are exceeded when they are loaded.
