The NOAA Education Partnership Program with Minority Serving
Institutions Web site is managed by the National Oceanic and
Atmospheric Administration. Direct administration of the computer
systems is handled by the NOAA Education Partnership Program
with Minority Serving Institutions, National Oceanic and Atmospheric
Administration. Information presented on these pages is considered
public information and may be distributed or copied. Use of
appropriate photo and image credits is requested.
All Web servers need to collect technical information in
order to share their contents with visitors. The technical
information (see example below) identifies
what part of the Web site a visiting computer wishes to reach,
and where to send the requested information once it is found.
For site management, this technical information is also used
for statistical analysis. Summary statistics are used for
such purposes as assessing what information is of most and
least interest, identifying usage trends over time, determining
technical design specifications, and identifying system performance
or problem areas.
Electronic mail sent to addresses listed on this Web site
is treated no differently than any other electronic mail.
All electronic mail transactions are handled by electronic
mail servers, and do not pass through this Web site, nor are
they monitored or recorded by this site in any way.
This Web site does not use Web "cookies."
For site security purposes and to ensure that this service
remains available to all users, this government computer system
employs hardware and software to monitor network traffic and
to identify unauthorized attempts to add or alter information,
or otherwise cause damage or interfere with information delivery.
Except for authorized law enforcement investigations, no attempt
is made to identify individual users or their usage habits.
Raw data logs may be stored indefinitely for use in statistical
analysis or to protect the security and integrity of the computer
system.
Unauthorized attempts to add information or alter information
on this service are strictly prohibited and may be punishable
under the Computer Fraud and Abuse Act of 1986 and the National
Information Infrastructure Protection Act.
Please note that other National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
Web sites may have different information collection practices.
If interested, please consult their site-specific privacy
statements for details on such policies.
If you have any questions or comments about the information
presented here, please forward them to webmaster@epp.noaa.gov.
Web servers keep a record of their activity in a log file.
Every time a visiting computer requests a file from the Web
server, a log entry is recorded. A typical log file entry
for the NOAA Education Partnership Program with Minority Serving
Institutions Web site looks like this:
10/04/00 13:19:18 OK 200 somemachine.somenetwork.com
Mozilla/4.75 (Macintosh; U; PPC) http://othermachine.othernetwork.com/neatsites.html
"epp.noaa.gov" :default.asp 15208
What this entry means:
- 10/04/00 13:19:18 -- Date and time of the request
(24-hour clock).
- OK 200 -- Status code of the request. "OK"
and a status code of "200" are equivalent; they
mean the requested file was successfully found and delivered
to the requesting (visitor's) computer.
- somemachine.somenetwork.com -- Internet address
(or IP address, in the form of 123.123.123.123) of the requesting
computer. The last part of the address, .com, indicates
the requesting computer is on a commercial network. Other
commonly seen addresses end in .mil (U.S. military), .net
(a different category of commercial network), .org (non-profit
organization), .gov (U.S. government agencies, state and
Federal), etc. Depending on how the requesting computer
is connected to the Internet, this may not identify a specific
computer.
- Mozilla/4.75 (Macintosh; U; PPC) -- Type of browser
used by the requesting computer.
- http://othermachine.othernetwork.com/neatsites.html
-- The Internet address of the last site visited by the
requesting computer, useful in discovering how visitors
found this Web site.
- "epp.noaa.gov" -- The Internet address
of this Web site. As it is possible to operate several Web
sites on a single computer, the Web server uses this information
to determine which Web site should handle the request.
- default.asp -- The name of the file requested by
the visiting computer.
- 15208 -- Size of the requested file, in bytes.
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