Logging Group Charter and Issues List.
Charter
The group is looking at ways of recording information about HTTP transactions.
This may include mechansims for obtaining information and formats for recording and
exchange.
Mailing List
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Drafts
- Extended Log File Format
- Draft describes a proposal for an extended logfile format.
Issues List
- [1001] Accessing Geography Information.
- How can one determine the geographic location of a user?
- [1002] Representing Geography Information.
- Is geographic information important emnough and consistent enough to
specify a tag? Should this be within the core group of tags or specified
separately in a set of "extension" tags?
- [1003] IPV6 awareness.
- Just need someone to write up the grammar.
- [1007] Is format readable by Lotus-123, Excell, Access ?
- The format should be accessible using popular spreadsheets and databases.
- [1008] Is format Perl friendly
- The format should be readable using a simple Perl script.
- [1009] Representation of extension
- Should extension tokens carry the type of the data format represented?
- [1010] Representation of User name
- Not bright to log BASIC auth strings for this purpose
- [1011] Matrix showing which prefixes are valid for which identifiers.
- Action item DD
- [1012] "The following identifiers do no require a prefix" change to cannot
take
- Action item PHB
- [1013] Shouldn't the comment id be of type ?
- Probably, Action item PHB
- [1014] The definition of name type says it's for DNS names,
but identifier method is of type
- Probably, Action item PHB
- [1015] it's appropriate to say uri-query is of type ?
- Probably Not, Action item PHB
- [1016] Is comma folding a requirement?
- Yes, needs documenting, Action item PHB
- [1017] Cutting off egregiously long fields
- needs to be done??
- [1018] What if a header field is empty
- Log should contain - not "" and spec should be clear.
- [1019] Reword to make it clear that placing the end data at the
head of the log is an option not an obligation.
- Action item PHB
- [1020] Examples still use the old format
- Action item PHB
- [1021] Link form draft to issues list.
- Action item PHB
- [1022] Objectives list
- Should state clearly that the purpose of the log format is to
record all my favourite fields Session-ID, Referer etc.
Action Items List
- [1004] Inserting grammar for EBNF used.
- Action item PHB
- [1005] Writing grammar for directives
- Action item PHB
- [1006] Examples of using summary logs
- Action item PHB
Closed Items List
None
Dr Phillip M. Hallam-Baker
World Wide Web Consortium