LITA Regional Institute: Proxy Web Servers and Authentication
San Antonio, TX February 22, 2001
Proxy Web Servers and Authentication > Privacy Statements
Sensitivity of information
- Since all requests for a particular user can go through the proxy server, the proxy server's logs provide a much more complete view of patron activity than any single web server log
- The key is to distill log files to remove any identifying information and aggregate server requests to remove patterns.