Selectively writing to the access log

[Rodney Broom <mo...@rbroom.com>]

I'm wanting to look at the request and optionally change what gets written to the access log. However, I only see methods for writing to the error log. I think I need to do this inside the request because I'm piping things with TransferLog and don't want to interupt that. But I don't mind another aproach.

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Rodney Broom

Re: Selectively writing to the access log

[Rob Nagler <na...@bivio.net>]

>   Usage: Apache::the_request(r)

This means the "sub" Apache::the_request takes a single parameter,
i.e. you can't modify the_request.

You can modify the method and uri.  You can't modify the protocol 
(HTTP/1.0).  If you change method or uri, it doesn't change "the_request".
You can change your LogFormat to get these values--see
http://httpd.apache.org/docs/mod/mod_log_config.html

Rob

Re: Selectively writing to the access log

[Rodney Broom <mo...@rbroom.com>]

From: Rob Nagler <na...@bivio.net>

> I don't think you can change the access log format, but you can 
> modify the values.  For example, you can set $c->user and $c->remote_ip.

Thanks Rob, this is helpful and it works. The value I'm wanting to change is in r->the_request, but passing a value to that method yeilds a usage message:

  Usage: Apache::the_request(r)

This routine returns a string, so I assumed it would take a string. I've tried passing other things always getting the same message. I've glanced at mod_log_conf.c, and some core code, but I don't see what I need to pass.

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Rodney Broom

Re: Selectively writing to the access log

[Rob Nagler <na...@bivio.net>]

> I only see methods for writing to the error log. 

I don't think you can change the access log format, but you can 
modify the values.  For example, you can set $c->user and $c->remote_ip.

Rob