Time for action – understanding the access log messages

Let's look at a few lines from the access.log file before we actually explore the different fields in the log message:

1284565351.509    114 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/302 781 GET http://www.google.com/ - FIRST_UP_PARENT/proxy.example.com text/html

1284565351.633    108 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/200 6526 GET http://www.google.co.in/ - FIRST_UP_PARENT/proxy.example.com text/html

1284565352.610    517 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/200 29963 GET http://www.google.co.in/images/srpr/nav_logo14.png - FIRST_UP_PARENT/proxy.example.com image/png

1284565354.102    147 127.0.0.1 TCP_MISS/200 1786 GET http://www.google.co.in/favicon.ico - FIRST_UP_PARENT/proxy.example.com image/x-icon

In the previous example of a log message, the first column ...

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