Re: [squid-users] logformat codes

On 2013-12-06 11:07, Brendan Kearney wrote:
> On Thu, 2013-12-05 at 17:55 +1300, Amos Jeffries wrote:
>> On 5/12/2013 1:41 p.m., Brendan Kearney wrote:
>> > i am wondering if there is a logformat code that can be used to log the
>> > URL (domain.tld or host.domain.tld) independent of the URI
>> > (/path/to/file.ext?parameter)? i am using %ru, which gives me the URL
>> > and URI in one string. %rp seems to be the URI, but i am not using that
>> > right now and can only go by what i am reading in the docs.
>> >
>> > i am looking to log the URL in a separate field from the URI so that in
>> > a database of the log entries, the URL can be indexed for better search
>> > and reporting performance. is there an easy way to accomplish this?
>> >
>>
>> There is no specific code for the URL domain at this point.
>>
>> You can work around it with the Host: header. %{Host}>h
>>
>> Amos
>>
>
> i think i did consider that, but found that exception cases did exist
> where URL != Host Header. i think those cases were cloud or co-hosted
> sites, or load balanced sites (geographically, such as CDNs). i dont
> have the logs anymore (or have to search further to find them), but i
> do
> recall finding cases where that was not a usable work around.
>
> not sure what an RFE requires, so how might one be requested for this
> kind of feature?

This one should be simple so asking (done) and a donation for what you
think a few hours of my time is worth (PayPal buttons at
http://treenet.co.nz/projects/squid/) and I should be able to produce a
patch.

Amos
Received on Thu Dec 05 2013 - 22:46:06 MST