Proxy Web Servers and Authentication > Privacy Statements

What is collected?

4.54.39.182 - - [01/Aug/2000:00:17:19 -0500] "GET http://olc7.ohiolink.edu/bin/gate.exe?f=search&state=3v0758.1.1 HTTP/1.0" 200 7164

• A proxy server will typically use the Common Log Format:

  host

  The fully-qualified domain name of the client, or its IP number if the name is not available or DNS resolution is turned off.

  ident

  The identity information reported by the client (if running identd).

  authuser

  If the request was for an password protected document, then this is the user id used in the request.

  date

  The date and time of the request, in the following format: [day/month/year:hour:minute:second zone]

  request

  The request line from the client, enclosed in double quotes.

  status

  The three digit status code returned to the client.

  bytes

  The number of bytes in the object returned to the client, not including any headers.

• Other information, such as origin server information, response time, and browser strings, may also be logged.

Portions adapted from Apache Module mod_log_common documentation.