previous questoin... maybe I'm grabbing at straws...

[Gabriel Ramuglia]

Flash doesn't always send referring information. It's pretty hit or
miss and depends on the browser being used, the alignment of the
stars, etc. Bottom line, you might have referring information come
from flash, but definitely DO NOT count on it.

On Thu, Jan 15, 2009 at 1:33 PM, Dave Cheney <dave at cheney.net> wrote:
> What does your access log say, you should be able to grep for 404's, which
> may give you the referrer.
>
> You can always disable logging 404's as errors
>
> server {
>
>    log_not_found off;
>
> }
>
> If you want to know more about the request, try ngrep
>
> Cheers
>
> Dave
>
> On 16/01/2009, at 7:06 AM, Ilan Berkner wrote:
>
>> I previously posted a question about getting more information about an
>> error that we're getting in our Nginx log files.  The error is as follows:
>>
>> 2009/01/15 11:47:57 [error] 15704#0: *689561 open()
>> "/home/spellcit/public_html/letters/.mp3" failed (2: No such file or
>> directory), client: 204.38.160.220, server: www.spellingcity.com, request:
>> "GET /letters/.mp3 HTTP/1.1", host: "www.spellingcity.com"
>> What I'm trying to figure out is which php or swf script (or maybe its not
>> a php or swf script) is actually making the call to request this
>> non-existent file.
>>
>> Out of 25,385 errors in our log, 16,952 are caused by this issue.
>>
>> One of the suggestions I got was to turn on the access logs, which I did.
>>  In looking at this IP address at the access logs, this is what I get, which
>> unfortunately is not much.
>>
>> 204.38.160.220 - - [15/Jan/2009:12:31:26 -0600] 404 "GET /letters/.mp3
>> HTTP/1.1" 169 "-" "Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; PPC; en-US; rv:1.0.2)
>> Gecko/20030208 Netscape/7.02" "-"
>>
>> I was thinking about creating a dummy ".mp3" file (or rewrite rule) to
>> capture traffic and get try to get some more info out of the header... just
>> a thought.
>>
>> Any suggestions / thoughts would be very much appreciated.
>>
>> Ilan
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