Time for action – enabling HTTP server log emulation

By default, Squid will generate a native log, which contains more information than the logs generated with the HTTP log emulation on. We can use the following line in our configuration line:

access_log daemon:/opt/squid/var/logs/access.log common

This configuration will log messages in a web server-like format. Let's have a look at a few log messages in the HTTP server-like log format:

127.0.0.1 - - [13/Sep/2010:17:38:57 +0530] "GET http://www.google.com/ HTTP/1.1" 200 6637 TCP_MISS:FIRSTUP_PARENT

127.0.0.1 - - [13/Sep/2010:17:40:11 +0530] "GET http://example.com/ HTTP/1.1" 200 1147 TCP_HIT:HIER_NONE

127.0.0.1 - - [13/Sep/2010:17:40:12 +0530] "GET http://example.com/favicon.ico HTTP/1.1" 404 717 TCP_MISS:FIRSTUP_PARENT

These log messages are similar to log messages generated by the famous open source web server Apache and many others.

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We learned to switch on the HTTP server-like log emulation of Squid access logs. Squid...