Abstract: we want to remove a substring, starting with a semi-colon, and continuing
either to the
query string or to the end (whichever comes first), from the URL before Analog does
anything with
the request or the referrer. Can this be done in Analog, or is a helper required?
We use ATG's product, Dynamo, for dynamic web content. To track the user's state, it
attempts
to set a sessionid cookie in the browser. For the very first page, before it knows if
the browser
sets cookies, and for subsequent pages if the browser doesn't set cookies, it will
encode the sessionid
cookie in all links on the page. The request as observed by the web server looks
something like this:
GET /US/en/corp/store/catalog/Product.jhtml;jsessionid=<cookie>?PRODID=6082&CATID=267
HTTP/1.0
where <cookie> is actually some undelimited string of alphanumeric characters. There
are also pages
without a query string that are cookied as well, for example:
GET /;$sessionid$<cookie> HTTP/1.0
Note for this different cookie, we don't have any equals sign, not that it matters
much.
These are rather useless for analysis, and explode the reports far larger than they
need to be,
not to mention than our beleagured disks can take. One might consider using an ALIAS
construct
to remove the offending substring, except that it seems to be applied _after_ Analog
has already
done considerable work on the log line. Further, an ALIAS to clobber the embedded
cookie will
preclude any subsequent ALIAS from being applied to the request/referrer.
We prefer to archive our log files unaltered, so if a preprocessor is required, how
might we
specify that?
Thanks for your help,
Rich
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Richard C. Dempsey email: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Kodak.com pager: 716-975-3539
3rd Floor, Bldg 16, KO phone: 716-781-5232
Eastman Kodak Company
Rochester, NY 14650-0706
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