[TYPO3-core] RFC: Resubmission of feature #1585: Logfile by Request URI + configuration of Empty Referer handling + logline hook

[Ingmar Schlecht]

Looks like you've done good work, even Doc changes are attached. I don't 
have the time to do a review at the moment, so this is just a reminder.

cheers
Ingmar

Ralf Hettinger wrote:
> This is an SVN patch request.
> 
> Type:
> New feature
> 
> Bugtracker references:
> http://bugs.typo3.org/view.php?id=1585
> 
> Branches:
> trunk only
> 
> Problem:
> Bundling four problems in one request, since they all subsume under the topic
> config.stat_apache=1 logging.
> (1) There is no option for config.stat_apache_pagenames to trigger logging of
> the request URI itself. But this is likely to be most interesting to log if some
> rewrite extension like realurl / simulateStaticDocuments / (...) is in place.
> (2) Logging of query parts is currently performed (ie query parts written to
> log) but not of any use for TYPO3.
> (3) TYPO3's logging is not able to track empty Referers and User Agents hits as
> Apache itself could (and would by default).
> (4) The logLine generated by class.tslib_fe.php is not extendable.
> 
> Solution:
> (1) Introduce the options [requesturi] and [requesturi] to
> config.stat_apache_pagenames
> (2) stat_apache_cutQuery = [boolean] will trigger cutting query parameters
> (anything behind '?') of the logged line
> (3) Though this is not an exact solution (which I think is not possible due to
> missing env var), it could be made configurable how to log hits with an empty
> Referer and User Agent (since Apache's direct address hits will be seen as empty
> referer by TYPO3). Introducing the property stat_apache_emptyReferer=[string]
> and stat_apache_emptyUserAgent=[string]
> (4) On behalf of Thomas Oppelt: Add a LogLine hook to tslib_fe->statistics():
> TYPO3_CONF_VARS['SC_OPTIONS']['tslib/class.tslib_fe.php']['sys_stat-PreLogClass'][]->createLogLine($LogLine,$this)
> 
> Notes:
> This feature was already suggested on 2007-11-10 to this list but Martin
> Kutschker had some good suggestions/corrections to the former patch. Those are
> respected within this version.
> 
> 
> Ralf Hettinger
> 


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Ingmar Schlecht
TYPO3 Association Active Member