(yay, somebody is finally quoting the right spec)
Key sentence you apparently skipped over
The log file entries produced in CLF will look something like this
emphasis mine. In other words, this was
an example. Not all commands are GETs, and even for the ones that are, you'll still have assholes out there who are not following the protocol (keeping in mind that the whole freaking point of a log file is to preserve what's
actually happening so that you can, say, diagnose stuff that's going wrong...)