Best way to input logs

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Telson Alva
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How does one configure log access vial HTTP ?

Eg: if my website is http://test.com/ then should i put the URL as the same? I did try that with entering admin credentials, I got a 'Forbidden' error.

Any configuration on IIS side?

Which is better HTTP / FTP or sharing the logs over a network share ? I believe log cache works only for HTTP & FTP, if my server has heavy traffic, that is one months logs go upto 8GBs, would the log cache size be the same? or would it be compressed?
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Michael
HTTP log download isn't recommended in most cases, as you cannot use wildcards in this case. In most cases using network share is preferable. While the program doesn't cache logs itself in such case (unlike HTTP and FTP downloads), it caches results, so in most cases it won't need to read already analyzed logs.

Logs in the HTTP and FTP caches aren't compressed, while the results cache is compressed.