Apache, request_method & mod_php3

[Anon]

Hello folks,
I'm running Apache V1.3.12 & mod_php3 V3.0.15 under Linux (RH6.2).
Looking at Apache's access_log file, I found every time a php3 page is involved, the log record holds after the name of the requested php3 page, all the names and the relative values of the variables involved; sort of:
<...all the previous stuff > GET php3page.php3?varA=value&varB=value&.....
This means that I have a couple of problems:
1) I have very huge access_log; now I'm rotating them daily to avoid the 2Gb limit and if I would be able to avoid the overhead of the vars I calculated that the log files would be 90% shorther!!
2) I have some sort of security risk, due to the way GET method is supposed to work.
I think that using POST method would be fine to solve both issues but I can't choose the request_metod in the pages themselves; I have no <form action ...> tags; all the request of the php3 pages have vars and values "hardcoded" in the url, sort of <href "php3page.php3?var=value">

What can I do?
Your help will be very appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

[Anon]

See the Apache docs "manual/mod/mod_log_config.html"

Your httpd.conf probably has a line in it like this:

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%r\" %>s %b" common

Define your own logfile format, constructing an equivalent. Something like this:

LogFormat "%h %l %u %t \"%m %U\" %>s %b" customlog

... which delivers a similar report but omits the query string.

Then, later in your httpd.conf file, change

CustomLog logs/access_log common
to
CustomLog logs/access_log customlog