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Posted to docs@httpd.apache.org by Joe Orton <jo...@redhat.com> on 2005/01/24 16:42:24 UTC
[PATCH] mod_log_config %[bB] clarify
We keep seeing people confused that %[bB] mean different things in 2.0
to 1.3, and the docs don't really do a lot to help here. Something like
this is more accurate and useful, I think: any comments?
Index: mod/mod_log_config.xml
===================================================================
--- mod/mod_log_config.xml (revision 126293)
+++ mod/mod_log_config.xml (working copy)
@@ -77,10 +77,10 @@
<td>Local IP-address</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>%...B</code></td>
- <td>Bytes sent, excluding HTTP headers.</td></tr>
+ <td>Size of response in bytes, excluding HTTP headers.</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>%...b</code></td>
- <td>Bytes sent, excluding HTTP headers. In CLF format, <em>i.e.</em>
+ <td>Size of response in bytes, excluding HTTP headers. In CLF format, <em>i.e.</em>
a '<code>-</code>' rather than a 0 when no bytes are sent.</td></tr>
<tr><td><code>%...{<var>Foobar</var>}C</code></td>
@@ -237,6 +237,14 @@
a backslash, and all whitespace characters which are written in their
C-style notation (<code>\n</code>, <code>\t</code> etc).</p>
+ <p>Note that in httpd 2.0, unlike 1.3, the <code>%b</code> and
+ <code>%B</code> format strings do not represent the number of
+ bytes sent to the client, but simply the size in bytes of the HTTP
+ response (which will differ, for instance, if the connection is
+ aborted, or if SSL is used). The <code>%O</code> format provided
+ by <module>mod_logio</module> will log the actual number of bytes
+ sent over the network.</p>
+
<p>Some commonly used log format strings are:</p>
<dl>
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Re: [PATCH] mod_log_config %[bB] clarify
Posted by Hiroaki KAWAI <ka...@iij.ad.jp>.
Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca> wrote:
> Andr
> > * Joe Orton <jo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> >
> >
> >>We keep seeing people confused that %[bB] mean different things in 2.0
> >>to 1.3, and the docs don't really do a lot to help here. Something like
> >>this is more accurate and useful, I think: any comments?
> >
> >
> > +1.
>
> +1; although the list of "notes" is getting a little out-of-hand.
+1
---Hiroaki Kawai
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Re: [PATCH] mod_log_config %[bB] clarify
Posted by Joshua Slive <jo...@slive.ca>.
André Malo wrote:
> * Joe Orton <jo...@redhat.com> wrote:
>
>
>>We keep seeing people confused that %[bB] mean different things in 2.0
>>to 1.3, and the docs don't really do a lot to help here. Something like
>>this is more accurate and useful, I think: any comments?
>
>
> +1.
+1; although the list of "notes" is getting a little out-of-hand.
Joshua.
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Re: [PATCH] mod_log_config %[bB] clarify
Posted by André Malo <nd...@perlig.de>.
* Joe Orton <jo...@redhat.com> wrote:
> We keep seeing people confused that %[bB] mean different things in 2.0
> to 1.3, and the docs don't really do a lot to help here. Something like
> this is more accurate and useful, I think: any comments?
+1.
nd
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