Re: mod_log-any/1351: No filtering of referer is possibly in CustomLog module

[Rainer Scherg <Ra...@msp.baynet.de>]

The following reply was made to PR mod_log-any/1351; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: Rainer Scherg <Ra...@msp.baynet.de>
To: dgaudet@arctic.org, coar@hyperreal.org, erwin@nmg.nl
Cc: apbugs@apache.org
Subject: Re: mod_log-any/1351: No filtering of referer is possibly in CustomLog module
Date: Sat, 28 Nov 1998 14:48:12 +0100

 Request for #PR1351 done in #PR3449... (same request).
 Feature has been implemented for some sort of backward compatability
 (not 100% compat.) to get rid of mod_log_referer.
 
 
 >From: Dean Gaudet <dg...@arctic.org>
 >Date: Mon, 3 Nov 1997 12:37:23 -0800 (PST)
 
 > It's largely unrequired with 1.3 because as of 1.3 you can pipe your logs
 > through an external program in a reliable.  The external program can do
 > whatever complicated filtering you're interested in.
 > 
 > Dean
  
 
 Aggreed, but on a heavy loaded Server (like our main server, doing also
 intranet web stuff) you get a performance penalty if you are using
 external logfilters.
 
 So: IMO it's ok, if a webserver has a basic(!) means of filtering
 features
 to minimize logsize (saves > 90% of unwanted referer log entries on an
 intranet site!)
 
 Regards Rainer
 
 see: #PR3499