Log SSP and Authorization Errors

Question

I asked for this on the feature request website
"It seems that apex does not log SSP errors or Authorization errors, or if it does, they are no available in an apex view. For example, if a user changes the page number in the url to a page he is not authorized to see, an error page is dispalyed, telling him that he cannot see this page. As far as I can tell, this error is not logged in the apex views. Same goes for, when a user tries to change an id in the url."
My item was closed with the comments
"The error messages are logged into the activity log if activity logging is enabled for your application. Have a look at the column ERROR_MESSAGE in the view APEX_WORKSPACE_ACTIVITY_LOG. "
Well I tested it again.
I went to a page and changed the item_id and I received the checksum violation message.
I then did a select * FROM APEX_WORKSPACE_ACTIVITY_LOG and looked for the error message.
There was no error message.
Can someone else try this
Gus

Answer 1

Hi Gus,
I just have setup another test at apex.oracle.com
workspace: patricks_test
user: guest
pwd: 123456
1) Run application 24683 and login as guest/123456
2) If you click "Customers" you will get the authorization error
3) If you click "Products" and then pick a product to navigate to page 6 and afterwards modify the value of P6_PRODUCT_ID you will get the checksum error
4) In the Builder navigate to Administration -> Monitor Activity -> By Application -> 24683 and you will see the entries of APEX_WORKSPACE_ACTIVITY_LOG
When you did the query on APEX_WORKSPACE_ACTIVITY_LOG, did you verify that your app is writing activity logs at all? And second, have you connected with the parsing user of your application?
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