Raw Data Logs

Example: Information Collected from the Resource Management Desk Guide Web Site.
Below is an example of the information collected based on a standard request for a World Wide Web document:
2003-11-12 01:10:02 192.168.1.1 - 66.186.176.21 80 GET /Images/NavBar2_r1_c1.gif - 304 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.0;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) http://www.changearchitect.com/

  • 2003-11-12 -- This is the date the request was made, 12 November 2003.

  • 01:10:02 -- This is the time of the request, 1:10 a.m. (and 2 seconds).

  • 192.168.1.1 -- This is the host name (or IP address) associated with the requester (you as the visitor). Depending on the requester's method of network connection, the host name may or may not identify a specific computer. Connections via many Internet Service Providers assign different IP addresses for each session, so the host name identifies only the ISP. The host name will identify a specific computer if that computer has a fixed IP address.

  • 66.186.176.21 -- This is the host name (or IP address) associated with the server hosting the Resource Managment Desk Guide.

  • GET /Images/NavBar2_r1_c1.gif -- This is the file that was requested from the ChangeArchitect webserver. In this case it is a GIF image.

  • 304 Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+6.0;+Windows+NT+5.0;+.NET+CLR+1.1.4322) -- This is the browser and operating system that the visitor used to connect to the website ( in this case it was Internet Explorer 6.0 on a WindowsXP machine)

  • http://www.changearchitect.com/ -- This is the page that the visitor came from immediately before requesting this file. It is also called the referring url.