Re: Configurable log proposal

luotonen@ptsun00.cern.ch (Ari Luotonen)
From: luotonen@ptsun00.cern.ch (Ari Luotonen)
Date: Tue, 1 Feb 94 22:15:45 +0100
Message-id: <9402012115.AA00577@ptsun03.cern.ch>
To: www-talk@www0.cern.ch
Subject: Re: Configurable log proposal
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>  * 	%C client host address
> 
> I assume this is a host name if known, and an IP address if the name is not
> known?

That's what I had in mind.


>  * 	%E user email address
>  
> Where is this e-mail address coming from? It will either come from the auth.
> or from identd, which are both provided below...

HTTP From: field.


>  * 	%P protocol version
> 
> HTTP protocol version, I assume?

Yes, maybe just the number, like 1.0 (?)


> I actually tossed this idea around last October. I was wondering if it was
> overkill. It will make the statistic collectors more complicated...

I didn't mean any more trouble to statistic collectors.  I prefer having
a good default for this (your proposal is ok), but if someone should
happen to absolutely want a diffent kind of log then it would be possible.

Well, either way is fine.  Less work for me if we just forget it :-)

-- Cheers, Ari --