Re: Question about logging

[Vadim Gritsenko]

Tony Collen wrote:

Hi everyone,

I'm toying around with the idea of writing something like a
ReferringURLGenerator that will spit out all the referring URLS that
Cocoon has seen in it's logs.  The only problem is that I can't find any
trace of such info being logged in access.log, core.log, sitemap.log, etc.
I notice in core.log, the following info is given for a request:

<snip>

REQUEST: /cocoon/documents/images/label-background_b.gif

CONTEXT PATH: /cocoon
SERVLET PATH: /documents/images/label-background_b.gif
PATH INFO: null

REMOTE HOST: localhost
REMOTE ADDRESS: 127.0.0.1
REMOTE USER: null
REQUEST SESSION ID: null
REQUEST PREFERRED LOCALE: en_US
SERVER HOST: localhost
SERVER PORT: 8080

METHOD: GET
CONTENT LENGTH: -1
PROTOCOL: HTTP/1.1
SCHEME: http
AUTH TYPE: null

CURRENT ACTIVE REQUESTS: 1
REQUEST PARAMETERS:

HEADER PARAMETERS:

PARAM: 'host' VALUES: '[localhost:8080]'
PARAM: 'user-agent' VALUES: '[Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US;
rv:1.0.0) Gecko/20020623 Debian/1.0.0-0.woody.1]'
PARAM: 'accept' VALUES:
'[text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,video/x-mng,image/png,image/jpeg,image/gif;q=0.2,text/css,*/*;q=0.1]'
PARAM: 'accept-encoding' VALUES: '[gzip, deflate, compress;q=0.9]'
PARAM: 'accept-charset' VALUES: '[ISO-8859-1, utf-8;q=0.66, *;q=0.66]'
PARAM: 'keep-alive' VALUES: '[300]'
PARAM: 'connection' VALUES: '[keep-alive]'
PARAM: 'cache-control' VALUES: '[max-age=0]'

</snip>

So, for a request of "/cocoon/documents/images/label-background_b.gif",
the referring URL should be "/cocoon/documents/index.html"

Where do you see it?

.. Am I looking
in the right place for referrer info, or am I way off?

You need referer header which browser sents. Usually this info logged by web server or server engine. You can either create your own log (action logging value of the header) or use existing log of the web server or servlet engine.

Cocoon by itself do not write access log similar to log of the web server, because cocoon does not tries to replace web server.

Vadim

Tony



Tony Collen -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]
College of Liberal Arts University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, West Bank

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