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Why doesn the OUTFILE command automatically create the directory for the output file?

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Why doesn the OUTFILE command automatically create the directory for the output file?

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Actually, most programs don’t do this. It’s too easy to create directories in unrelated parts of the filesystem if you make a typo. • Why not automatically spot robots by whether they request /robots.txt? It’s not reliable. Not all robots request /robots.txt, and not everything that requests /robots.txt is a robot. (Consider a webmaster checking his own /robots.txt, for example.) • Why not just do DNS resolution of the hosts that actually make it into the Host Report? There is one theoretical and one practical problem. Theoretically, the problem is that which hosts do make it into the Host Report can change when the DNS lookups have been done. And practically, this wouldn’t help identify the busiest countries or organisations, which is usually what you really want to know. However, there is a Perl script on the helper applications page to do this. • Couldn’t you do the DNS lookups faster with threads? The problem is, the standard commands for DNS lookups are not thread-safe on many pla

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