Whether to log unknown requests

daemon.py

@@ -484,6 +484,7 @@ class EpicyonServer(ThreadingHTTPServer):
     robots_txt = None
     last_llm_time = None
     mitm_servers = []
+    log_unknown_requests: bool = False
     watermark_width_percent = 0
     watermark_position = 0
     watermark_opacity = 0
@@ -712,6 +713,14 @@ def run_daemon(accounts_data_dir: str,
     # the last time when an LLM scraper was replied to
     httpd.last_llm_time = None
 
+    # whether to log unknown requests
+    httpd.log_unknown_requests = \
+        get_config_param(base_dir, 'logUnknownRequests')
+    if httpd.log_unknown_requests is None:
+        httpd.log_unknown_requests = False
+    if not isinstance(httpd.log_unknown_requests, bool):
+        httpd.log_unknown_requests = False
+
     # servers with man-in-the-middle transport encryption
     httpd.mitm_servers = load_mitm_servers(base_dir)
 

daemon_get.py

@@ -6147,8 +6147,8 @@ def daemon_http_get(self) -> None:
                                 '_GET', 'arbitrary json',
                                 self.server.debug)
     else:
-        if self.server.debug:
-            print('DEBUG: GET Unknown file')
+        if self.server.debug or self.server.log_unknown_requests:
+            print('DEBUG: GET Unknown request ' + self.path)
         http_404(self, 144)
     self.server.getreq_busy = False
 

epicyon.py

@@ -1603,6 +1603,11 @@ def _command_options() -> None:
         set_config_param(base_dir, 'instanceDescription',
                          'Just another ActivityPub server')
 
+    # whether to log unknown requests
+    log_unknown_requests = get_config_param(base_dir, 'logUnknownRequests')
+    if log_unknown_requests is None:
+        set_config_param(base_dir, 'logUnknownRequests', False)
+
     # set the short instance description in config.json
     desc_short = get_config_param(base_dir, 'instanceDescriptionShort')
     if not desc_short: