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Item7111: Log user agent for all users; log additional info via extralog URL parameter

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Engine TWiki logs Enhancement Closed   patch 5.1.4

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Two small "no-brainer" enhancements:

  1. Always show user agent for view script action, regardless if guest user or not
  2. Ability to log extra info via URL parameter

Sample TWiki log entry:

| 2012-12-28 - 16:46 | guest | view | Plugins.HeadlinesPlugin | Mozilla | 66.249.74.176 |

Currently, the user agent (Mozilla in this example) is only shown in the log for guest user, not for authenticated users.

Change: Always show user agent if available, regardless if guest user or authenticated user.

Additional enhancement: If URL parameter extralog is present for view script, its value is added to the log next to the user agent.

For example, http://twiki.example.com/do/view/Plugins/HeadlinesPlugin?extralog=hello+world would show this log entry:

| 2012-12-28 - 16:46 | guest | view | Plugins.HeadlinesPlugin | Mozilla hello world | 66.249.74.176 |

This is useful to log extra information, for example to have additional analytics available when custom search crawlers or cache scripts are used.

-- TWiki:Main/PeterThoeny - 2012-12-28

This is now in SVN trunk and 5.1 branch.

I have done this for TWiki:Plugins.TWikiGuestCacheAddOn so that topic caching action is logged in the TWiki logs.

-- TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny - 2012-12-29

Small additional change: User agent is only shown for view script.

-- TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny - 2012-12-29

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Summary Log user agent for all users; log additional info via extralog URL parameter
ReportedBy TWiki:Main.PeterThoeny
Codebase ~twiki4, 5.1.3
SVN Range TWiki-5.1.3-trunk, Thu, 27 Dec 2012, build 24584
AppliesTo Engine
Component TWiki logs
Priority Enhancement
CurrentState Closed
WaitingFor

Checkins TWikirev:24605 TWikirev:24606 TWikirev:24607 TWikirev:24608 TWikirev:24609 TWikirev:24610 TWikirev:24611 TWikirev:24612 TWikirev:24625 TWikirev:24626
TargetRelease patch
ReleasedIn 5.1.4
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Topic revision: r15 - 2013-02-18 - PeterThoeny
 
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