Saturday, April 08, 2006

TIPS on HTTP Log Analysis

My daily job deals a lot with apache access log, as well as mod_security which is the IPS for apache. I start to realize that understanding http status code is important when analyzing web server's log. It may help you to understand whether the code executions, traffic redirection on your web server is successful or fail.

After googling, I get to this few links which I think it is useful resource especially to me. Sharing is always good, ain't it?

http://www.w3.org/Protocols/rfc2616/rfc2616-sec10.html

http://www.ilovejackdaniels.com/apache/http-status-codes-explained/

http://www.helpwithpcs.com/courses/html/html_http_status_codes.htm

I don't think I can memorize all of them, however remember one or two which are important might get yourself handy in analyzing log.

Enjoy :]

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