-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Leo,
On 3/29/2011 5:44 PM, Leo Donahue - PLANDEVX wrote: >> -----Original Message----- >> From: Christopher Schultz [mailto:ch...@christopherschultz.net] >> Subject: Re: Logging request parameters - Filter vs Servlet >> >> 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. Hmm... >>> 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. There is an AccessLogValve that you can use if you know which request parameters you want to log. There is also a RequestDumperValve (and RequestDumperFilter in 7.0) that you can use to dump everything from the request. See the docs for details. Would those work for you? >> 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... Heh. I suppose you'll know if things stop working. - -chris -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.10 (MingW32) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org/ iEYEARECAAYFAk2TRmcACgkQ9CaO5/Lv0PAIBQCfeDY2N9qXHbuijqz5cIOSnkj8 POgAn0ghVWuAkkiEv3cTrOTWsyCRe4IB =c7cf -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscr...@tomcat.apache.org For additional commands, e-mail: users-h...@tomcat.apache.org
