Re: Logging full headers

On Thu, 16 Oct 1997, Steve Campbell wrote:

> I'd like to use the LOG_FULL_MIME_HEADERS configuration, but to keep
> the access.log size a little more reasonable I'd like to leave out
> the request header. Does anybody see any problem with changing this
> line in stat.c:

Be very careful with the LOG_FULL_MIME_HEADERS configuration. The primary
problem is that it uses some string library functions but the data it
operates on isn't guaranteed to follow the rules (in particular, it often
isn't terminated by a \0). I assume that the effect of this will depend
on your string library. On mine, it causes lots of segmentation faults...
:-(

Linux 2.027 - 2.030
libc5.4.20 (or thereabouts - doubt the string code changes much anyway)

My code is hacked to oblivion and my changes are really ugly, so I am too
embarrassed to offer it up as a patch. Knowing what to look for should be
a big help to a real programmer, though... :-)

Kevin

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