Is there any possibility to log the POST parameters a script gets via
Apache? Unfortunately I haven't found any switch for the LogFormat
directive.

My problem is as follows: I have the following code on my homepage:

<form action="mail.php" method="POST">
....
<input type="hidden" name="funk" value="send">
<input name="address" size="20">
....
</form>

I'd like to have the values of the "funk" and "address" fields in the
Apache log file. Can this be done? And if yes, how?

Regards,
Christian

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In article <4207797f$0$10578$3b214f66@aconews.univie.ac.at> ,
Christian Meisl <christian.meisl@tugraz.at> wrote:

> Is there any possibility to log the POST parameters a script gets via
> Apache? Unfortunately I haven't found any switch for the LogFormat
> directive.
>
> My problem is as follows: I have the following code on my homepage:
>
> <form action="mail.php" method="POST">

Personally, I don't think this is a very good idea, even if it was easy
to do. It would be quite easy for a malicious person to flood your form
with tons of useless POST data, quickly filling up your log file
partition.

You're much better off putting diagnostic strings into your PHP script,
mail.php. Find a place after the headers have been sent, and echo the
form variables, or fwrite them to a file somewhere.

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On Mon, 07 Feb 2005 15:21:51 +0100, in
comp.infosystems.www.servers.unix, Christian Meisl
<christian.meisl@tugraz.at> wrote:

>Is there any possibility to log the POST parameters a script gets via
>Apache? Unfortunately I haven't found any switch for the LogFormat
>directive.

Not as far as I know.

<snip form>

>I'd like to have the values of the "funk" and "address" fields in the
>Apache log file. Can this be done? And if yes, how?

You can have your script write the posted values into environmental
variables and then log the environmental variables - \"%{FOOBAR}e\"
will add the value of FOOBAR to the log.

Jim