From: Joe Orton <jorton@apache.org>
Date: Wed, 2 Feb 2005 11:28:57 +0000 (+0000)
Subject: Merge r126297 from trunk:
X-Git-Tag: 2.0.53~52
X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/cgi-bin/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5be9c4f09a489803e0a701a03a9225502c4a2c14;p=thirdparty%2Fapache%2Fhttpd.git

Merge r126297 from trunk:

Clarify meaning of %[bB] and note difference from 1.3.

Reviewed by: nd, slive


git-svn-id: https://svn.apache.org/repos/asf/httpd/httpd/branches/2.0.x@149509 13f79535-47bb-0310-9956-ffa450edef68
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diff --git a/docs/manual/mod/mod_log_config.xml b/docs/manual/mod/mod_log_config.xml
index 207713a87a0..ef85b1b867b 100644
--- a/docs/manual/mod/mod_log_config.xml
+++ b/docs/manual/mod/mod_log_config.xml
@@ -76,10 +76,10 @@
         <td>Local IP-address</td></tr>
 
     <tr><td><code>%...B</code></td>
-        <td>Bytes sent, excluding HTTP headers.</td></tr>
+        <td>Size of response in bytes, excluding HTTP headers.</td></tr>
 
     <tr><td><code>%...b</code></td>
-        <td>Bytes sent, excluding HTTP headers. In CLF format, <em>i.e.</em>
+        <td>Size of response in bytes, excluding HTTP headers. In CLF format, <em>i.e.</em>
         a '<code>-</code>' rather than a 0 when no bytes are sent.</td></tr>
 
     <tr><td><code>%...{<var>Foobar</var>}C</code></td>
@@ -237,6 +237,14 @@
     a backslash, and all whitespace characters which are written in their
     C-style notation (<code>\n</code>, <code>\t</code> etc).</p>
 
+    <p>Note that in httpd 2.0, unlike 1.3, the <code>%b</code> and
+    <code>%B</code> format strings do not represent the number of
+    bytes sent to the client, but simply the size in bytes of the HTTP
+    response (which will differ, for instance, if the connection is
+    aborted, or if SSL is used).  The <code>%O</code> format provided
+    by <module>mod_logio</module> will log the actual number of bytes
+    sent over the network.</p>
+
     <p>Some commonly used log format strings are:</p>
 
     <dl>