Re: [squid-users] squid reverse proxy and UTM urchin stats

Chris Robertson escribió:
> Emilio Casbas wrote:
>> I know that this is a question more related to urchin software,
>> but maybe someone in this list have successfully configured urchin
>> software (UTM enabled) with a squid reverse proxy configuration.
>>
>> The Urchin UTM installation is available only with Apache and IIS,
>> http://www.google.com/support/urchin45/bin/topic.py?topic=7355
>> but it would be helpful have instructions with squid as reverse proxy
>> too.
>
>> From http://www.google.com/support/urchin45/bin/answer.py?answer=28710...
>
> The second important function of the UTM Sensor is to uniquely identify
> both sessions and unique visitors. Through a patent-pending combination
> of browser cookies, the Sensor detects and initializes the unique
> visitor and session identifiers allowing exact monitoring of new and
> returning visitors regardless of service provider proxy behavior. Most
> service providers take advantage of proxying by recycling IP addresses
> and clustering users behind firewalls. This can cause problems with
> normal logfile tracking, which typically utilizes the IP address as an
> identifier of the user.
>
> ...so your accelerator setup should have no effect on Urchin's analysis
> of your Apache logs.
>
>>
>> The squid version we are playing to is squid-2.6-Stable12 with a common
>> logformat modified such as:
>>
>> logformat common %>a %ui %un [%tl] "%rm %ru HTTP/%rv" "%{Referer}>h"
>> "%{User-Agent}>h" "%{Cookie}>h
>>
>> But it isn't working with urchin.
>>
>> Meanwhile I'll ask for support to urchin in order to get a squid
>> configuration.
>>
>> Have anyonone configured urchin UTM with squid as reverse proxy?
>
> I have not, and given the information above, wouldn't bother trying.
> *shrug*

Thanks for the response Chris,

I'll give it a try and when I have it solved I'll write a small howto
to achieve it. It could be helpful to more squid users.

Thanks
Emilio C.
Received on Fri May 04 2007 - 04:41:37 MDT