Cookie Logging - Netscape ENTREPRISE SERVER 6.1 - 08-2002 ADMINISTRATOR Administrator's Manual

Click the Vsid check box. Alternatively to this, you can click the Custom
5.
Format: radio button and add the string
NOTE When adding the custom format string
access log file.
For information on the
Logging and Statistic Collection" in the Netscape Enterprise Server NSAPI
Programmer's Guide.
When changing the format of an existing log file, you should first delete/rename
the existing log file OR use a different file name.
Server access logs can be in Common Logfile Format, flexible log format, or your
own customizable format. The Common Logfile Format is a commonly supported
format that provides a fixed amount of information about the server. The flexible
log format allows you to choose what to log. A customizable format uses
parameter blocks that you specify to control what gets logged. For a list of
customizable format parameters, see the Netscape Enterprise Server NSAPI
Programmer's Guide. Once an access log for a resource has been created, you cannot
change its format unless you archive it or create a new access log file for the
resource.
You can specify logging preferences using the Log Preferences page in the Server
Manager, or you can manually configure the following directives in the
(or file. In
magnus.conf)
initialize the flexible logging system and the function
request-specific data in a flexible log format. To log requests using the common log
file format, the server calls
which is used in
obj.conf
common log format (used by most HTTP servers).
For more information on the NSAPI logging functions, including valid directives
and parameters, see the Netscape Enterprise Server NSAPI Programmer's Guide.

Cookie Logging

Enterprise Server can log a specific cookie using the flexlog facility. Add
"
Req->headers.cookie.cookie_name
subsystem in the configuration file
variable if the cookie variable is present in the request's headers, and
cookie_name
logs "-" if it is not present.
directive in
LogVsId
, the server calls the function
magnus.conf
to initialize the Common Log subsystem
init-clf
, and
common-log
" to the line that initializes the
obj.conf
.
%vsid%
, you must use a new
%vsid%
, see the section "Error
magnus.conf
to record
flex-log
to record request-specific data in the
. This logs the value of the cookie
Chapter 9
Setting Log Preferences
obj.conf
to
flex-init
flex-log
Using Log Files 213