On Sun, Jul 19, 2009 at 01:00:31AM -0400, Jim Ohlstein wrote:

> After the last thread I went through several iterations of cache logging
> and I'm getting good information from it.
>
> One thing I noticed (not from these logs but from elsewhere) is that I
> was getting a fair number of "hotlink" requests for items that were in
> my cache. Thousands from the same IP's in fact. So I blocked those IP's
> but the links are still active and I'm seeing many requests for these
> items. The client is getting a 403 and that's how it's logged in the
> access log but $upstream_cache_status returns a dash ("-") which is not
> always very helpful. It would be more helpful if I could get a more
> descriptive log entry, like "BLOCKED" or "DENIED". Is that something
> that could be added in a future version?

The upstream cache module simply does not know about these requests.


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