Information in the log file to calculate approximate response time

Prasad Wagle (Prasad.Wagle@eng.sun.com)
Mon, 10 Jul 1995 19:03:04 +0800

For each request the CERN server stores a time value in the access log
file. It would be nice if the following information were available:

1. Time at which the request was received.
2. Time at which the first byte of the reply was written.
3. Time at which the connection was shutdown.

This would provide extremely useful information (even though it is
approximate) about:

1. server response time
2. network transfer time
3. total response time

Does this make sense? Are there any servers that do this?

Ari Luotonen wrote on 23 Jun 1995 that Netscape servers store the
transfer time for each request. How is this calculated, that is, at
what points in the code are the timestamps recorded?

Regards,
Prasad

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