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http://nagoya.apache.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20241 Add log format to log file itself Summary: Add log format to log file itself Product: Apache httpd-2.0 Version: HEAD Platform: Other OS/Version: Other Status: NEW Severity: Enhancement Priority: Other Component: mod_log_config AssignedTo: [email protected] ReportedBy: [EMAIL PROTECTED] There is currently no way to determine reliably the log format used to generate a log file. If you use the same log format forever this is not a problem, but if you change the log format then the old log files using the old format are "orphaned". This is a particular problem if you are trying to write a log file analysis tool to generate web log statitistics that will work with different sites who have changed their log formats. Microsoft IIS5 has a nice solution to this (no flames!!): everytime the log file format is changed they insert a special string in the log file itself that is, in essence, the log format. A web log parser could then parse a log file and it would not matter how often the log file format changed, the parser could handle it. What is nice about this solution is that it would be relatively easy to implement. And to avoid breaking current web log file parsers, you could have the inserting of the log file format into the log file optional, with it turned off by default. This feature would be hugely useful to me, and I imagine at the very least helpful to other log file parsers. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
