[Zope-dev] Re: [Plone-developers] Getting PAS users to show up in the access log/Z2.log

[Wichert Akkerman]

Previously Ross Patterson wrote:
> Wichert Akkerman <wichert at wiggy.net>
> writes:
> 
> > Previously Ross Patterson wrote:
> >> Ross Patterson <me at rpatterson.net> writes:
> >> 
> >> > It seems like ZServer/medusa/http_server.py is responsible for logging
> >> > requests to the access log/Z2.log and it only extracts the user from the
> >> > HTTP basic auth header.
> >> >
> >> > I'd like to have the Z2.log reflect my PAS users so I started a branch at
> >> > http://svn.zope.org/PluggableAuthService/branches/rossp-access-log/ that
> >> > hacks some request data.  You can see the meat of it in the following
> >> > changeset:
> >> >
> >> > http://svn.zope.org/PluggableAuthService/branches/rossp-access-log/PluggableAuthService.py?view=diff&r1=79171&r2=79170> >
> >> > I'm sure this is just about the worst way to do this.  :)  I just wanted
> >> > to get the discussion started.
> >> >
> >> > I suspect that ZServer/medusa/http_server.py is only invoved for certain
> >> > Zope setups and that other Zope setups (twisted, etc.?) might log
> >> > differently.
> >> >
> >> > So what would be a better way to approach this?  Does anyone else have a
> >> > solution to this problem?
> >> 
> >> I forgot to mention that one of my goals is to have this behavior be PAS
> >> pluggable.  In particular, it seems obvious that user.getUserName()
> >> should be the default that's used, but I have a need to use something
> >> else, so I'd like to be able to write a plugin that does this.
> >
> > I suspect that instead of doing yet another PAS plugin it would be more
> > useful to make the zserver logging modular.
> 
> I don't suppose you could provide any suggestions for a direction for
> this?  I really know very little about the zserver.

Perhaps it would be interesting to see if the standard python logging
module can be used to log requests as well.

Wichert.

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