NCSA Common Log File Format

Topic Last Modified: 2007-01-24

The following describes the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA) common log file format:

Information is written to an ASCII text file that uses the NCSA format.
Data is fixed. You cannot customize the log.
There are multiple records for a single transmission.

For a complete list of entries, see NCSA Common Log Format Entries.

The following is an example of the NCSA common log file format:

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10.3.5.1 - Nwtraders.com [18/Aug/2006:13:17:37 - 0800] "MAIL FROM -? FROM: someone HTTP/1.0" 250 0 10.3.5.1 - Nwtraders.com[18/Aug/2006:13:17:37 - 0800] "RCPT TO -? TO: someone@example.com HTTP/1.0" 250 0 10.3.5.1 - Nwtraders.com[18/Aug/2006:13:17:37 - 0800] "DATA -?000B72730441764MAIL01 HTTP/1.0" 250 97 10.3.5.1 - Nwtraders.com[18/Aug/2006:13:17:37 - 0800] "QUIT -?someone HTTP/1.0" 0 0

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10.3.5.1 -  Nwtraders.com  [18/Aug/2006:13:17:37 - 0800] "MAIL FROM -? FROM: someone HTTP/1.0"  250 0 
10.3.5.1 - Nwtraders.com[18/Aug/2006:13:17:37 - 0800] "RCPT TO -? TO: someone@example.com HTTP/1.0" 250 0
10.3.5.1 - Nwtraders.com[18/Aug/2006:13:17:37 - 0800] "DATA -?000B72730441764MAIL01 HTTP/1.0" 250 97
10.3.5.1 - Nwtraders.com[18/Aug/2006:13:17:37 - 0800] "QUIT -?someone HTTP/1.0" 0 0