[Zope] Zope User in Apache Logs

[Chris Withers]

Dieter Maurer wrote:
> Andreas Pauley wrote at 2006-5-2 15:57 +0200:
>> ...
>> I would like to know how I can get Apache to log the current Zope user.
>> Here's an example from my Apache access_log:
>> 10.0.0.100 - - [02/May/2006:15:32:18 +0200] "GET / HTTP/1.1" 200 35721
> 
> Of course, you cannot, unless Apache performs the authentication.

Actually, not strictly speaking true ;-)

If your Zope auth solution can put a header in the http response, then 
you can use a custom apache logging directive to put this in your Apache 
log in place of what it thinks the username is.

I've used this quite successfully on one large project...

cheers,

Chris

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