Table 1.
Fields in the "common"
Web access log file

Lincoln D. Stein
"On-the-Fly Plots Made Easy"
The Perl Journal, Summer 1999
 
Field Name Description
Remote host DNS name or IP address of the remote host
RFC931 Login name of the remote user, determined using the RFC1413 protocol. This protocol relies on a correctly configured and running identd daemon on the remote user's side. Since most systems don't run this daemon, this field is usually blank (a hyphen).
Username If the requested document was password protected, this field contains the username the remote user provided to authenticate with. Otherwise the field contains a hyphen.
Date The date of the request, in local time.
Request The text of the HTTP request, usually GET, POST, or HEAD followed by the requested URL.
Status The status code that the server responded to the request with, usually 200 for OK.
Response Size The total number of bytes transferred from server to browser.