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Glossary: Attacks and Indicators

access log

Also written: access.log, web access log

A web server's record of every request it receives, with the client address, time, requested URL and status code. Searching it for patterns such as `UNION`, `%27`, `../` and `%3b` reveals injection and directory traversal attempts, and a `200` status shows which ones worked.

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HTTP status codesinjection