Log file formats that support cookies or sessions

Is this common?

[aspdaddy]

I have a new host that gives me log files with an extra field - cs(Cookie), containing the asp session id.

Is this option available or anything similar in non windows log file formats on unix , apache etc.

Are there log file processors that would use this info?

Thanks.

[Viscount9]

Hi, I have the same question too!

I have NetTracker and WebTrends which can process web logs with cookies, but I would like to know what log formats support this, and I wonder how the cookies have to be set: via JavaScript, Perl, etc?

Thanks,

Daniel

[andreasfriedrich]

aspdaddy [webmasterworld.com] wrote at 01:15 AM on Mar. 15, 2003 in message #1 [webmasterworld.com]
>>Is this option available or anything similar in non
>>windows log file formats on unix , Apache [httpd.apache.org] etc.

The LogFormat [httpd.apache.org] directive lets you define what Apache logs [httpd.apache.org]. Using the CustomLog [httpd.apache.org] directive you can send output either to a file or a pipe.

Viscount9 [webmasterworld.com] wrote at 09:50 AM on Mar. 24, 2003 in message #2 [webmasterworld.com]
>>I wonder how the cookies have to be set: via JavaScript,
>>Perl [perl.com], etc?

A cookie is a cookie no matter which language was used to set it. The server simply reads and logs the cookie header field in the HTTP request header.

Andreas