Chris, >-----Original Message----- >From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] >Subject: Re: Logging request parameters - Filter vs Servlet > >Leo, > >On 3/29/2011 12:57 PM, Leo Donahue - PLANDEVX wrote: >> Where do you initialize the Logger (Filter or Servlet)? > >Which logger?
I don't know what I don't know... Log4j I guess. That is what everyone recommends. > >> The servlet 2.5 spec says you can use filters for logging, but since >> I'm not modifying the request or response, is logging from within a >> filter the right approach to logging request parameters? > >That depends upon your requirements. What are they? I just want to capture the request parameters on a certain web app and log them (time and what they were) in a separate log file from the standard logs, so that I don't have to hunt them down in the standard Tomcat logs. The security tool that our telecom office uses for auditing our sites makes quite a mess of my standard logs periodically. > >Note that reading request parameters in a Filter may trigger parsing of >a POST request body which may not be something you want to happen on >every request. An example of things I don't know that I don't know... Leo
