Item5056: TWiki's logging is untidy

TWiki's access logging to logYYYYMM.txt makes wrong guesses and is inconsistent:

• User agent heuristics:
  • Internet Explorer 6 is identified as "Mozilla"
  • Firefox is identified as empty string
• User id field:
  • Most scripts log (in 4.2!) the unmodified login id
    • save with repRev logs the canonical id in the "detail" column
    • register logs the wikiname
• Log file format:
  • logYYYYMM.txt has TML-table-ready format
  • configurationlog.txt and warnYYYYMM.txt lack the closing vertical bar on each line

I failed to find any documentation about TWiki's logging, so I guess it is a WAI (Works As Implemented).

-- HaraldJoerg

setting to Crawford, he's in that code atm

-- SvenDowideit - 08 Feb 2009

I rewrote the logging recently, and it (unintentionally) crept into 1.0.4. The rewrite doesn't cure all the problems above, but at least now all the log files are in a consistent format.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 07 Mar 2009

can we close it? - aka have you done all you're likely to address Harald's task?

-- SvenDowideit - 12 Aug 2009

I have done all I'm likely to, but it doesn't address Harald's user agent problem, so have to leave this open.

-- CrawfordCurrie - 18 Aug 2009

The logger code has been heavily modified, but marking for George's attention all the same (this can probably be closed no-action, but....)

-- CrawfordCurrie - 21 Dec 2014

I'm going to close as no-action. The User Agent handling could certainly be improved, but would probably entail using CPAN module that better understands UA strings. If you still want improved user agent handling, please open a new enhancement request. I'm hesitant however to add more dependencies on CPAN modules.

-- Main.GeorgeClark - 23 Dec 2014 - 19:58