Re: Configurable log proposal

"Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@simplon.ICS.UCI.EDU>

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To: Kevin 'Kev' Hughes <kevinh@eit.COM>
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Subject: Re: Configurable log proposal 
In-reply-to: Your message of "Tue, 01 Feb 1994 13:58:10 PST."
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Date: Tue, 01 Feb 1994 15:39:08 -0800
From: "Roy T. Fielding" <fielding@simplon.ICS.UCI.EDU>
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> 	...and breaking down the request pathname (full, url, or partial),
> and one generic escape for miscellaneous (unknown) data known only to the
> server.

Gack! Not for me.  I want to know what the actual request was, not how
the server interpreted it (other than the server's response code).
Although having the server translate the request makes it easier for
automated log analyzers, it also reduces the utility of logs as means
of finding out "what went wrong."


....Roy Fielding   ICS Grad Student, University of California, Irvine  USA
                   (fielding@ics.uci.edu)
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