Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2005/06 - Gruppe G3 - Aufgabe 3
Topic: Webserver Logfile Visualization
Application Area Analysis
Dataset Analysis
The Common Logfile Format
According to the World Wide Web Consortium the Common Logfile Format is as follows:
remotehost rfc931 authuser [date] "request" status bytes
remotehost: Remote hostname (or IP number if DNS hostname is not available, or if DNSLookup is Off.
rfc931: The remote logname of the user.
authuser: The username as which the user has authenticated himself.
[date]: Date and time of the request.
"request": The request line exactly as it came from the client.
status: The HTTP status code returned to the client.
bytes: The content-length of the document transferred. [1][W3C]
Datatypes
Target Group Analysis
Aim of the Visualization
Designproposal
References
[1][W3C]World Wide Web Consortium, Logging Control In W3C httpd. Created at: July, 1995. Retrieved at: November 16, 2005. http://www.w3.org/Daemon/User/Config/Logging.html#common-logfile-format.