I appreciate the fast reply. Okay, but what kind of code do I use and where would I place it in order to retrieve a cookie named, for example, DW_Cookie ? Joshua Slive-2 wrote: > > On 11/2/06, tsarvak <tim.sarvak@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >> Hi everyone - >> >> I'm a complete newbie to Apache and web development in general, just >> started >> learning about it it this week. >> Here's my situation: >> We have Apache 1.3 installed on an AIX server. >> I want to be able to read a cookie from the user's client PC when they >> access the website. This cookie would contain their user Id. I then >> want >> to write the value of this cookie to the standard access_log file. The >> purpose of this is to determine which users are accessing our Cognos Web >> reports and when. >> >> I understand that Apache can write its own user tracking cookie via the >> mod_usertrack, but I need something that specifically allows me to read >> this >> custom cookie containing the user's name. > > Adding %{cookie}i to your logformat string should do the trick. > > Joshua. > > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. > See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. > To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > > > -- View this message in context: http://www.nabble.com/can-Apache-read-a-user-cookie-and-write-value-to-access_log--tf2560197.html#a7135186 Sent from the Apache HTTP Server - Users mailing list archive at Nabble.com. --------------------------------------------------------------------- The official User-To-User support forum of the Apache HTTP Server Project. See <URL:http://httpd.apache.org/userslist.html> for more info. To unsubscribe, e-mail: users-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx " from the digest: users-digest-unsubscribe@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx For additional commands, e-mail: users-help@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx