Thank you Amos for your detailed explanation. That helped. Appreciate it. On Thu, Nov 20, 2014 at 8:28 PM, Amos Jeffries <squ...@treenet.co.nz> wrote:
> -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On 21/11/2014 3:31 a.m., Swapneel Patnekar wrote: > > Dear Amos, > > > > Thank you for your input. > > > > The reason I had this requirement is to build a analytics app on > > top of Squid which will only show typed URL's so that the end user > > has the precise information w.r.t evaluating web access. > > > > Currently, since everything gets logged into the access.log, there > > is no way to differentiate between typed/bookmark accessed URL's > > and URL's which are references for the main URL i.e CDN URL's for > > js, css etc. > > > > Sorry if I am pressing here, but do you have any > > suggestions/alternate solutions for how I could achieve this ? > > No sorry. What you ae asking for is not possible. The information you > are seeking is private to the browser. It rarely goes anywhere else, > and applications that attempt to make it get a CVE security > vulnerability of "information leakage" classification thrown at them > for doing it. > > You will have to go with imprecise data and heuristic algorithms > estimating actions based on the logged URLs and their relative timing. > > > It may help if you discard the idea that you can point at a single URL > and say that is "the page". There are no such things as "pages" in > HTTP. "Page" is one of several abstract concepts representing groups > of URL fetches. In other words a "page" is a whole collection of > transactions in the HTTP log. > Each time a user views a "page". Some *part* of the URLs forming that > page are fetched. Some parts of the collection may not be fetched. Or > different parts fetched at different "page" views. It depends on what > the browser needs to fetch at the time of each different viewing > (since it has its own cache). > > Amos > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v2.0.22 (MingW32) > > iQEcBAEBAgAGBQJUbgGXAAoJELJo5wb/XPRj24QH+wXf8G02wlscUiMO2s99q4I2 > ROM1PA16Ye6EieD4I0p+vydIint4nIh10qiuuV+BnsMPgDK95ADdWgl6p2HFWYyK > ZwxzYZ7k4HW9cvJujkGKyJEgIv9UEQmduzljJu35yig50fNIbdYhbMNch4lmjZHg > CYs3TTglE0VOXh5+vYxKLRBR7CzZcYcHzQ2epj5kuSkCfFQSRTyZTsO2bZsTmv38 > CufUrkzH6i0XnhYpp9tTwFdXBNPJs2yJI5I0UcDbPBI44IAH+bMCq0HJ83dV1CJA > c4+4EXE+vnWuc67HzmsSWx9KveQvx/2sddex3HqLtWwSXYp328JqHp22oTErwXE= > =dTiW > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > -- Best, Swapneel Patnekar +91 98866 37820
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