HTML and logging?

Hello!

I'm trying to get MUSHclient to log with valid HTML. I've selected to log as HTML, log output, log commands, and log notes; the color is also logged, and world name is written. For preamble, I have Session started at %#c. Similarly, for the postamble, Sessions ends at %#c (I just wanted the times at when the sessions start and end).

The problem seems to be that there's no proper head, body, etc for a browser to interpret. For example, when I open the logfile in a browser, it almost looks like it would in a Notepad with (some) HTML tags. For example, here's a part of the log:

Session started at Monday, October 21, 2024 09:40:56 PM
<br>
Alter Aeon - Monday, October 21, 2024, 9:40 PM<br>
----------------------------------------------<br><br>

<font color="#C0C0C0">Welcome to Alter Aeon, a fantasy adventure game set in a world
</font><font color="#C0C0C0">of swords and sorcery, magic and dragons!
</font>
<font color="#C0C0C0">If you already have a character, enter the name now.
</font><font color="#C0C0C0">If you are new, you must create and name a new character.
</font>
<font color="#C0C0C0">Would you like to create a new character?

Etc, etc. What would you recommend doing to get valid HTML for logs? Also, I'm planning on logging many hundreds of thousands of lines--do you think the built-in logger is down for this, or should another utility be used? Any ideas welcome.

Cheers.

In the logging part of the world configuration there is provision for a log file preamble and postamble. There is also a button to insert "Standard HTML preamble/postamble".

Click that.

That will put whatever text you have there at the start, and end, of your log file, turning it into valid HTML.

It just writes to a file, appending to it if necessary. It should handle large volumes. I would advise putting the date (but not the time) into the log file name, so you get a new file every day. Or you could make it finer grained by putting the date and hour into the log file name so you get a new file every hour.

The "?" button near the top of the dialog box tells you the special characters you can use for putting dates and times into the log file name. For that matter, you can also put the time onto each line by modifying the "Output lines preamble".