# HTTP log file: trans\_depth nit
**URL:** https://community.zeek.org/t/http-log-file-trans-depth-nit/2143
**Category:** Development
**Tags:** development
**Created:** [December 2, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/http-log-file-trans-depth-nit/2143 "2011-12-02T21:58:40Z")
**Posts on this page:** 3
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### Author:  [@Gregor\_Maier](https://community.zeek.org/u/Gregor_Maier)
#### Post date: [December 2, 2011, 9:58pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/http-log-file-trans-depth-nit/2143/1 "2011-12-02T21:58:40Z")
Hi,
the documentation says about the trans\_depth column in the http.log:
"This represents the pipelined depth into the connection of this request/response transaction."
However, I don't known whether "pipelined" might be misleading here, because this field also counts "persistent" connections.
Don't know what else to call it though ☹
cu
Gregor
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### Author:  [@Seth\_Hall3](https://community.zeek.org/u/Seth_Hall3)
#### Post date: [December 3, 2011, 3:07am UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/http-log-file-trans-depth-nit/2143/2 "2011-12-03T03:07:12Z")
You're right, that's a bad description. The actual field name works fairly well though. What about something like this:
"This represents the ordinal value of the request into the connection for persistent or pipelined requests."
.Seth
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### Author:  [@system](https://community.zeek.org/u/system)
#### Post date: [May 6, 2022, 3:40pm UTC](https://community.zeek.org/t/http-log-file-trans-depth-nit/2143/3 "2022-05-06T15:40:02Z")