Parsing apache log files

[Jim Richardson]

On Fri, 20 Feb 2004 09:20:00 -0800,
 Josiah Carlson <jcarlson at nospam.uci.edu> wrote:
>> thanks, although reading that re makes my brain hurt! :), and I don't
>> think it handles the case where the dashes are something else (the dash
>> is a place holder for some data that wasn't there on this request,
>> bytelength, referrer, something) but I'll look into it, thanks for the
>> example. 
>
> It depends on which dash you were talking about.  The dash immediately 
> after the response code is the number of bytes sent, and is handled by 
> the regular expression.
>
> Unless you use identd checks, the first '-' will always be there, though 
> the second '-' is the identity of the client given through http auth, 
> which may or may not be important to you.
>

<snip>

It was the http auth, which for some reason, show up from time to time,
may be a misconfigured router/proxy don't know. But this works, although
my brain is still parsing the regexp :) Thank you very much for your
help.



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