repeated entries in website log file

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Published on 2012-04-02T11:17:16Z Indexed on 2012/04/02 11:34 UTC
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I am writing an ad hoc log analyser for my website log file. The following is part of the log file in which it shows file1.pdf has been downloaded twice. Looking carefully, the time stamp and IP address are exactly the same in both entries. How can it be possible to have 2 downloads at the same time by the same person. Should I count it as 2 in my programme or as 1? Any reply is appreciated.

name_of_subdomain xxx.xxx.xx.xx - - [02/Apr/2012:09:13:31 +0100] "GET /file1.pdf HTTP/1.1" 206 3706 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; CMDTDF)" name_of_subdomain xxx.xxx.xx.xx - - [02/Apr/2012:09:13:31 +0100] "GET /file1.pdf HTTP/1.1" 206 425462 "-" "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 8.0; Windows NT 5.1; Trident/4.0; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; .NET CLR 3.0.4506.2152; .NET CLR 3.5.30729; CMDTDF)"

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