Teaching:TUW - UE InfoVis WS 2005/06 - Gruppe G3 - Aufgabe 3

Topic: Webserver Logfile Visualization

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]

[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.