nginx logging issue

[s.k]

s.k wrote:
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I m quite new to nginx; but have used this for pop proxy; light webservers
> & quite fascinated with the results. 
> 
> Right now facing part as far logging is concerned. I certain hits in logs;
> which are just opening connections & dont transmit anything & close the
> connection or are disconnected after time-outs. So some entries of no
> requests format & error as 408 get recorded in logs; which makes
> centralised logging system go hay-wire. 
> 
> I would like to avoid logging such entries as done in apache; which does
> not logs 400 or 408 or any telnet requests w/o passing any headers. 
> 
> Some of options tried are as follows (but havent helped) :
> 
> ## Only allow GET and HEAD request methods
>     if ($request_method !~ ^(GET|HEAD|POST)$ ) {
>     return 444;
> 
> Access log:
> 
>   log_format  main  '$remote_addr - $remote_user [$time_local] "$request"
> '
>                     '$status $body_bytes_sent "$http_referer" '
>                     '"$http_user_agent" "$http_cookie" ';
> 
> Any help you would be highly appreciable.
> 
> Regs,
> San K
> 
> 
> 89.5.0.243 - - [25/May/2009:14:27:54 +0530] "-" 408 0 "-" "-" "-"
> XXX.XXX.XXX.5 - - [25/May/2009:14:26:32 +0530] "GET /health.htm HTTP/1.1"
> 200 3 "-" "-" "-"
> XXX.XXX.XXX.6 - - [25/May/2009:14:26:23 +0530] "GET /health.htm HTTP/1.1"
> 200 3 "-" "-" "-"
> 67.161.28.173 - - [25/May/2009:14:26:22 +0530] "-" 400 0 "-" "-" "-"
> 
> 

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