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Common Log format
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Paul Phillips)
Wed Apr 12 18:39:54 1995
Date: Wed, 12 Apr 1995 18:20:57 +0500
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Reply-To: paulp@cerf.net
From: Paul Phillips <paulp@cerf.net>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
I have a serious problem with the Common Logfile format, as presented at
<URL:http://w3.org/hypertext/WWW/Daemon/User/Config/Logging.html#
common-logfile-format>. It indicates that the "request" portion of the
log entry should be:
The request line exactly as it came from the client.
Unfortunately with directory indexing, this means that three different
requests all have the same semantic meaning:
GET /dirname
GET /dirname/
GET /dirname/index.html
(Assuming that index.html is the dir index file, this too can vary.) Are
the current logfile processing programs taking this vagarity into
account? I intend to log
GET /dirname/index.html
in all cases where index.html existed, and
GET /dirname/
in all cases where it doesn't, unless somebody can provide me with a
really good reason not to. One of the features of the server I am
writing will be reliable logging, so this is a little more important than
it might sound.
Comments?
-PSP
