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Reply to topic   Topic: Is it possible to createa module that log RAW HTTP requests?
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Tigrou



Joined: 25 Dec 2023
Posts: 1
Location: Belgium

PostPosted: Tue 26 Dec '23 14:38    Post subject: Is it possible to createa module that log RAW HTTP requests? Reply with quote

Hello,
I would like to create a module that logs HTTP requests in their raw format (as they are send to Apache, at byte level).

Here is one example:
Code:
TimeStamp
Request headers
\r\n
Request body size
Request body (optional)
\r\n
Response headers
\r\n
Response body size
Response body (optional)


Code:
1703593572
GET /foo/bar HTTP/1.1
Host: example.org
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; fr; rv:1.9.2.8) Gecko/20100722 Firefox/3.6.8
Accept: */*

0
HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sun, 10 Oct 2010 23:26:07 GMT
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html

1472
<html>
   <body>
      ...


I already took a look at some existing modules like mod_log_forensic, mod_dumpio but what they dump is imcomplete (eg: it's only header or body) and not in the format I want.

I already know C/C++, but I am unfamiliar with Apache code. Before coding anything I would like to know if this is easily feasible.

I plan to start using mod_dumpio as example.

https://github.com/omnigroup/Apache/blob/master/httpd/modules/debugging/mod_dumpio.c

My main concern I have :
- It seems filters callback are called multiple times for the same request. I want to log the request/response as a single blob. How to achieve this, is there something similar to a transaction (eg: it's possible to know when request starts and when it ends)
- mod_log_forensic dump the headers by looping on the headers data structure already parsed by Apache. Is it possible to instead dump the bytes data ?

The Apache version I use is 2.4.58 with Cent OS (Linux)
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James Blond
Moderator


Joined: 19 Jan 2006
Posts: 7371
Location: Germany, Next to Hamburg

PostPosted: Wed 27 Dec '23 18:00    Post subject: Reply with quote

Take a look at LogLevel[1]. Something from debug to trace8 might already does that.


[1] https://httpd.apache.org/docs/2.4/mod/core.html#loglevel
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