[Zope] my custom log method for logging users

27 Dec 2001

      I have rewritten log function in http_server so that I can log usernames and
passwords. I got this mostly from a post in the archives but since I am
using login manager with basic cookie authentication it needs to grab the
cookie and do some work on it. The only problem I am having is that the
base64.decode function throws a binascii.error when a user has some special
characters in her username:password. This happens with the underscore
character for sure, and maybe others...I haven't checkd for sure.

Any ideas? I assume it is supposed to do this (or there is a bug in the
base64 module), so what would anyone suggest as a solution?

    def log (self, bytes):

        user_agent=self.get_header('user-agent')
        if not user_agent: user_agent=''
        referer=self.get_header('referer')
        if not referer: referer=''
        k=self.get_header('cookie')
        cookie_name = '__ac'
        cookies={}
        cookie='?'
        lname = '?'
        password = '?'
        if k:
            parse_cookie(k, cookies)
            cookie=cookies.get(cookie_name, '')
            try : [lname, password] =
split(decodestring(split(cookie)[-1]),':',1)
            except : pass

        self.channel.server.logger.log (
            self.channel.addr[0],
            ' - "%s:%s" - %s - [%s] "%s" %d %d "%s" "%s"\n' % (
                lname,
                password,
                cookie,
                self.log_date_string (time.time()),
                self.request,
                self.reply_code,
                bytes,
                referer,
                user_agent,
                )
            )

TIA

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Erik Myllymaki
erik@pacific-shores.com