[tor-bugs] #10675 [Tor Sysadmin Team]: Please create a very restricted logs of hits on the RecommendedTBBVersions file

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#10675: Please create a very restricted logs of hits on the RecommendedTBBVersions
file
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 Reporter:  lunar              |          Owner:
     Type:  task               |         Status:  new
 Priority:  normal             |      Milestone:
Component:  Tor Sysadmin Team  |        Version:
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 We already have graph to estimate the number of Tor clients and that's
 great. But with the [https://blog.torproject.org/blog/how-to-handle-
 millions-new-tor-clients botnet] it became quite hard during summer 2013
 to understand if the amount of Tor Browser users was stable or increasing.

 The Tor Browser regularly hits on
 https://check.torproject.org/RecommendedTBBVersions to see if a new
 version is available. Knowing how many times this file is hit could help
 us figuring out trends in Tor Browser usage. It would only give us trends,
 and not an estimate of the number of Tor Browser users though, given the
 complexity of browser usage patterns.

 I think the day and the user agent are enough information. With Apache,
 that can
 be kept by adding to the main configuration:

 {{{
 LogFormat "%{%Y-%m-%d}t %{User-Agent}i" tbbversions
 }}}

 And then to the check.tpo VirtualHost:

 {{{
         SetEnvIf Request_URI ^/RecommendedTBBVersions$ tbbversions
         CustomLog ${APACHE_LOG_DIR}/tbbversions.log tbbversions
 env=tbbversions
 }}}

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