LOTS of downloads with IE 7.0/Windows 8 User Agent

I’ve seen this repetitive logging occur with more than just IE. I took a look at the code today and noticed that the feature which is supposed to suppress duplicate logging isn’t actually working right. I put up a pull request for the author to evaluate here: github.com/download-monitor/download-monitor/pull/287. If you’re savvy with editing files on your host, you can probably squeeze those few changes in by hand. Otherwise, you can wait for the next version of this plugin, which I’m sure will contain some variant of this fix.

Indeed. This is awesome. Thanks for being so thorough! I’ll incorporate the changes and see if anything happens, and keep my eye out for the next version. Thanks.

Thanks for the heads up guys. I’ll got through pull request when I start working on next version. Closing this thread here because there’s a PR on GitHub, if the PR works this will be included in next version!

@mdmower thanks so much for jumping onto this issue, great work.

@aplkorex The way in which this is ultimately handled in Download Monitor 1.8.0 is through a new option “Count unique IPs only” under the Logging tab.

Barry explained to me that the log should generally be a faithful representation of actual activity, unless explicitly altered via that option. I’ve since come around to this philosophy. Those repetitive entries you’re seeing really are multiple access attempts by the client (either by anxious clickers or ill-behaved download managers making numerous requests).

I have a vision of adding a “Group similar entries” feature to the log viewer for the future (imagine a collapsible grouping of identical log entries, where the most recent access determines the order of each group in the log view), but it will take considerable time to implement and even then Barry would need to sign-off on it. So, don’t hold your breath.

For now, the best way to avoid these multiple log entries is to enable “Count unique IPs only” in version 1.8.0 or newer.