Chapter 21. Logging and Usage Tracking
Almost all servers and proxies log summaries of the HTTP transactions they process. This is done for a variety of reasons: usage tracking, security, billing, error detection, and so on. In this chapter, we take a brief tour of logging, examining what information about HTTP transactions typically is logged and what some of the common log formats contain.
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