I don't know how many other people run into this but I get hundreds of
these errors per month. My hits per month is approaching 2 million.
Significant numbers of my visitors come via search engines. As seen
in the log file entries many of my visitors are referred with
misformed URLs (extra double quotes included in the referrer portion
of the header.)
If as some have suggested the answer is to change the configuration of
how my Web server logs the entries, how do I reconfigure it to have
the server replace the embedded quotes with something else? I'm
running Netscape Enterprise server 3.51, about to upgrade to 3.6, on
Windows NT 4.0. I don't see any way within the Netscape Admin server
interface to change something at that level. And, if its possible to
do a replacement, what is the preferred replacement character, i.e.,
<single quote>, <space>, %something, etc.,
My current log file format is:
format=%Ses->client.ip% - %Req->vars.auth-user% [%SYSDATE%]
"%Req->reqpb.clf-request%" %Req->srvhdrs.clf-status%
%Req->srvhdrs.content-length% "%Req->headers.referer%"
"%Req->headers.user-agent%"
Thanks in advance,
Ed Kabat
Web Administrator
Defense FInance and Accounting Service
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Subject: Re: [analog-help] Corrupt Log File Entries
Author: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> at ~ismail
Date: 2/18/99 10:18 AM
On Wed, 17 Feb 1999, Jason Linhart wrote:
>
> This is one of those complex cases where there isn't any correct answer.
> It is not legal to have double quotes inside a referrer string, but they
> are none the less there. There is no way to parse lines correctly that
> have quotes in the referrer string as long as the log is quoting the
> string with double quotes. Technicaly the server ought to prevent the
> double quotes from being written to the log file.
>
I thoroughly agree with this. It's "obvious" to a human what's meant, but not
to a computer. (And if you think it is, then what if the referrer contained
<quote><space>?).
However, the natural solution would be to use <backslash><quote> which it has
to be admitted analog doesn't understand either. I haven't bothered about this
before because I've never seen a large enough frequency of them that it would
make a difference -- and because of Jason's comment above.
--
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Statistical Laboratory, 16 Mill Lane, Cambridge CB2 1SB, England
"Ad infinitum, if not ad nauseam." (Interviewee, BBC Radio 4)
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