Mailing-List: contact dev-help@httpd.apache.org; run by ezmlm
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: dev@httpd.apache.org
Message-ID: <3F78BFD5.4090002@attglobal.net>
Date: Mon, 29 Sep 2003 19:27:17 -0400
From: Jeff Trawick <trawick@attglobal.net>
Reply-To: trawick@attglobal.net
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.0; en-US;
 rv:1.4) Gecko/20030624
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: dev@httpd.apache.org
Subject: how to log what status was returned by a cgi script
Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed
Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit

a cgi script can write this in the response header: "Status: nnn"...  it 
would sometimes be nice to know if the script did such a thing...

(like a current problem I'm working on: where the heck did the 500 come 
from for this CGI; there's nothing in the error log and the few places 
in the server that return 500 without logging don't seem like good 
suspects; being able to clearly log any status set by the script would 
eliminate any rude finger pointing)

how about in ap_scan_script_header_err_core() we set an envvar 
(script-status) to the value of the Status field, if provided?
then in a custom log format the script-status envvar can be logged...

or am I missing a way to log this info already?  (not the ScriptLog 
stuff; this is for a production environment :) )

alternatively, ap_scan_script_header_err_core() could stick something in 
the error log for bad http status codes, but that isn't quite as 
applicable (though it is automatic)