Python for Secret Agents - Volume II

What are they downloading?

In order to see what people are downloading, we'll need to parse the request field. This field has three elements: a method, a path, and a protocol. The method is almost always GET and the protocol is almost always HTTP/1.1. The path, however, shows the resource which was requested. This tells us what people are reading from a given website.

In our case, we can expand on the processing done in log_event_1() to gather the path information. It's a small change, and we'll add this line:

        event.method, event.path, event.protocol = event.request.split(" ")

This will update the event object by splitting the event.request attribute to create three separate attributes: event.method, event.path, and event.protocol.

We'll leave it ...