Though I one 100% agree with the stance that a proper web server should.. well.. serve pages - It sure would be nice if we could have a logging subsystem in apache 2.1 or higher which took care of some of the harder things for us module/appserver developers when bouncing around logging data.
I.e. things like buffered logging, had some light transactional, or at the least, reliable/agreed ordering in reasonably sided 'atom's and a few things like that. Today it is too easy to garble a log. And ideally it would still be 'stream's oriented with arbitrary sided un-dividable granules in those streams; with the granules not too ascii (but rather asn1 or so) oriented. As this would allow for some very interested (and very vendor specific/product/database tailoered) things build on top of that. .. just daydreaming. This is a -big- undertaking. As an aside -Anyone seen this xml<->ans1 mapping. Truly cool and combines the best of both worlds. See (http://www/itu.int/ITU-T/asn1/ or http://asn1.elibel.tm.fr/en/xml/) Dw.
