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Re: Common Log format II
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Brian Behlendorf)
Thu Apr 13 16:59:15 1995
Date: Thu, 13 Apr 1995 16:42:05 +0500
Errors-To: procmaster@www19.w3.org
Reply-To: brian@wired.com
From: Brian Behlendorf <brian@wired.com>
To: Multiple recipients of list <www-talk@www10.w3.org>
On Thu, 13 Apr 1995, Joel Crisp wrote:
> > I've been thinking about this too. Let's call the string a "log
> > template". Why not base it on the strftime() function? The current
> > CLF would be:
> >
> > %R %i %u [%d/%m/%Y:%H:%M:%S %O] "%q" %s %n
> If you do this, PLEASE make the field separator consistent - particularly
> as the date/time in the above string is so hard to parse with tools like
> 'awk'
Er, it's entirely up to you, the server administrator, to decide how to
separate strings (with this system). You should be cognizant of what
characters may show up in which strings, however - for example, spaces are
allowed in the request, the user_agent, even the authentication name.
Brian
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