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[nycphp-talk] PHP session id's in access logs

Andrew Yochum andrew at digitalpulp.com
Wed Jul 2 13:26:10 EDT 2003


On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 01:12:22PM -0400, Andrew Yochum wrote:
[...]
> Are you trying to log that session ID if using cookie-based sessions?
> 
> Here's an example from my httpd.conf file for the log format that includes
> cookies:
>         LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b \"%{Referer}i\" \"%{User-Agent}i\" \"%{Cookie}i\"" combinedcookie
> ...which simply adds \"%{Cookie}i\" to log the stock combined log format.
> You'll get all cookies stored by your site, but at least you have the session
> ID there for use.
> 
> Andrew

I should also mention that if you're using Apache 2.0, you can log a specific
cookie value with %{cookiename}C ... See:
    http://httpd.apache.org/docs-2.0/mod/mod_log_config.html#formats

Andrew

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Andrew Yochum
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andrew at digitalpulp.com



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