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212 CHAPTER 6 Web Usage Mining
The corresponding format string is given by
LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-agent}i\"" combined
The combined log format has two additional fields:
\"%{Referer}i\" site that the client was referred from enclosed in quotes
\"%{User-agent}i\" software that made the request enclosed in quotes
In this example, the referrer is http://cs.smu.ca/∼csc/ and it has a link to the file s.htm.
The software that was used for the request was Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5;
Windows NT 5.0); that is, the web browser, Microsoft Internet Explorer ...