[TriLUG] OT - Apache access_log ignore request

[Howard Boyd II]

I have an application that is sending a request to my Apache server and
the request is filling up the access_log. The entry in the access_log
looks like:

<ip of sender> - - [06/Apr/2004:10:00:09 -0400] "GET
/servlet/STestWebServer?COMMAND=TEST HTTP/1.0" 200 3

I would like to modify my httpd.conf file to ignore logging of these
specific requests. Ideally, I would like to ignore logging any request
of the form "/servlet/STestWebServer?COMMAND=TEST". I have modified the
httpd.conf file as follows:

# Configure to Ignore Unnecessary log records
SetEnvIf Request_URI "/servlet/STestWebServer" ignore
...

CustomLog /logs/http/OrderStatus/access_log common env=!ignore

The above works for me but isn't the exact pattern. If I modify the
above to:

# Configure to Ignore Unnecessary log records
SetEnvIf Request_URI "/servlet/STestWebServer?COMMAND=TEST" ignore
...

CustomLog /logs/http/OrderStatus/access_log common env=!ignore

It doesn't work. The pattern matching fails.

I'm assuming this has something to do w/ special characters (the
question mark?)? I've tried escaping things and various other tricks to
no avail. Could someone please tell me how to match the pattern exactly?
Thanks!

Howard


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