Ok I was able to get it to work for one of the example apps. I must have a
conflicting filter in the we app i'm trying to diagnose.
On Thu, Oct 8, 2020 at 3:03 PM Christopher Schultz <
ch...@christopherschultz.net> wrote:
> Wolfeman,
>
> On 10/8/20 10:33, Wolfeman wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I am trying to debug some requests coming into an application we have
> > running on tomcat. I was hoping to be able to print all of the request
> data
> > specifically post data to a debug file and this seemed like a good
> > solution. However I have followed the tomcat documentation for tomcat 7
> and
> > tomcat 8, which is basically the same.
> >
> > I added the following to logging.properties
> > handlers = 1catalina.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler,
> > 2localhost.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler,
> > 3manager.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler,
> > 4host-manager.org.apache.juli.AsyncFileHandler,
> > java.util.logging.ConsoleHandler,
> > 5request-dumper.org.apache.juli.FileHandler
> >
> > # To this configuration >elow,
> 1request-dumper.org.apache.juli.FileHandler
> > # also -eeds to be added to the handlers property near the top of the
> file
> > 5request-dumper.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.level = INFO
> > 5request-dumper.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.directory =
> > ${catalina.base}/logs
> > 5request-dumper.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.prefix = request-dumper.
> > 5request-dumper.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.encoding = UTF-8
> > 5request-dumper.org.apache.juli.FileHandler.formatter =
> > org.apache.juli.VerbatimFormatter
> >
> > org.apache.catalina.filters.RequestDumperFilter.level = INFO
> > org.apache.catalina.filters.RequestDumperFilter.handlers =
> > 5request-dumper.org.apache.juli.FileHandler
> >
> > And I added this to the both the web.xml in the conf directory and the
> > web.xml in my application. I tried one, the other and both at the same
> time.
>
> Definitely remove everything you added from conf/web.xml. That will be a
> disaster.
>
> > <filter>
> > <filter-name>requestdumper</filter-name>
> > <filter-class>
> > org.apache.catalina.filters.RequestDumperFilter
> > </filter-class>
> > </filter>
> > <filter-mapping>
> > <filter-name>requestdumper</filter-name>
> > <url-pattern>*</url-pattern>
> > </filter-mapping>
> >
> >
> > When I start tomcat it creates the log file, however nothing ever gets
> > printed in it. So it isn't working. I must be missing something. Is this
> > the right way to do this?
>
> What if you use "/*" as your url-pattern instead of "*"?
>
> -chris
>
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Thanks,
Brian Wolfe
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