Re: filter for ONLY initial get request

["Thierry Emmanuel" <Emmanuel.Thierry () technicolor com>]

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From: wireshark-users-bounces () wireshark org [mailto:wireshark-users-bounces () wireshark org] On Behalf Of Sake Blok
Sent: jeudi 12 août 2010 12:06
To: Community support list for Wireshark
Subject: Re: [Wireshark-users] filter for ONLY initial get request

> The thought behind using the referer header is that it will filter out the objects that the user did not manually 
> requested. Give it some thought, a user types in a URL in the browser, the referer is empty so we need to count this 
> request. The page contains several objects. They are requested with the requested page as the referer. It is save to 
> count these as this is what the user requested. Even though the requested objects are for advertisements (which the 
> OP wants to skip). As long as the user clicks on links that link to pages on the same site, we are fine.
>
> Then the user clicks on a link to another site. OK the referer still points to the original site (so we have a 
> miscount of 1), but assuming the user clicks on at least one link on within the new site, the new site still gets 
> listed, only with one less count.
>
> Next to that I followed your handy tip to not count every object, but only count objects of type html by filtering on 
> the Accept: header.

Oh, ok.
Sounds interesting, I didn't thought about a solution so complex ! I just have a little doubt about the benefits 
compared to the complexity of the implementation of such a process !

Best regards

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