Privacy (of the people browsing) can be compromised by saving cookie and query strings - e.g. if they contain userid and password, or account information. This can be particularly revealing if the referring URL is also recorded, and if reports include query string analysis.
Adrian -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Aengus Sent: Tue, May 23, 2006 9:57 AM To: Support for analog web log analyzer Subject: Re: [analog-help] Repercussions of using standard log formats? On Tuesday, May 23, 2006 12:02 PM [EDT], Cody Carey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > We host a number of different types of sites. We have plain apache and > netscape sites, special application sites, etc. The problem is alot of > our sites have custom log formats. This causes us alot of problems in > our processing of statistics. My basic question is if we created a > single universal log format that included just about every piece of > data what could the repercussions be aside from increased log file > size and processing time? Log size can more than double if you include referrers and browser strings, if you weren't doing that before. Luckily, this is extremely compressible, because the strings are repeated so often. Adding cookies can also significantly increase the size of logs, depending on how many cookies are set by the applications. But I can't think of any negative repercussions, other than increased log size. Aengus +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +- | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Analog Documentation: http://analog.cx/docs/Readme.html List | archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general +----------------------------------------------------------------------- +- +------------------------------------------------------------------------ | TO UNSUBSCRIBE from this list: | http://lists.meer.net/mailman/listinfo/analog-help | | Analog Documentation: http://analog.cx/docs/Readme.html | List archives: http://www.analog.cx/docs/mailing.html#listarchives | Usenet version: news://news.gmane.org/gmane.comp.web.analog.general +------------------------------------------------------------------------
