weblog 1.1: A web access logging tool

Revision History
Revision $Revision: 1.17 $$Date: 2003/02/16 00:44:32 $

Table of Contents
1. Requirements
2. Input: the access logs
3. Filtering of the logs
4. Operation of the program
5. Outputs
6. Internals of the weblog script
6.1. The webstats.py script
6.2. Objects for the weblog application: weblog.py
6.3. Objects for the weblog application: pageget.py

1. Requirements

Web page authors may be be curious about whether anyone is seeing their pages. The purpose of the weblog program is to provide a web page where anyone can see which pages are being visited.

The output of this program addresses two kinds of questions:

Both reports show, for each URL, the percentage of off-site accesses. Accessors not in the nmt.edu domain (129.138.*) are considered off-site.

At the request of the New Mexico Tech Public Information Office, the program should maintain data covering at least the last month's accesses.