• Malika Makker
• Rohan Simha
• Anala M.R.
• Revathi SA

World wide web is a huge platform for users to disseminate and consume information. Several web applications hosted on world wide web record their respective users activities through logging. Every web application maintains their web access logs or HTTP logs in the servers where they are being hosted - for example, Microsoft IIS Server, Apache server, etc. The potential of these logs to further secure the website or gain more visitors remains unexploited. HTTP logs have been analysed before for user profiling, analysis of traffic, monitoring for any kind of suspicious activities. User profiling helps in targeted advertisement or recommendations - generally carried out by analysis of user’s click stream. Analysis of traffic helps in gaining an insight on the kinds of users - crawlers, bots, spiders, human users, human users looking for vulnerabilities in the system, etc. This analysis could be used to make the website more user specific and also to better the visibility to web crawlers. Analysis of suspicious activities could help gauge the vulnerabilities of a web application and thereby, make it more secure. This paper also enumerate the various kinds of attacks a website could be exposed and the ways to protect against them. Availability of various logs analysis frameworks has also been discussed.

HTTP logs, traffic, anomaly detection, attacks, user profiling

"HTTP Logs Analysis & Its Use Cases - Survey", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no.102-106, April-2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904F20.pdf

"HTTP Logs Analysis & Its Use Cases - Survey", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 4, page no. pp102-106, April-2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1904F20.pdf