diff --git a/src/app-layer-htp.c b/src/app-layer-htp.c
index 91e37a34f7..af7a0b24ff 100644
--- a/src/app-layer-htp.c
+++ b/src/app-layer-htp.c
@@ -584,6 +584,48 @@ error:
     SCReturnInt(-1);
 }
 
+/**
+ * \brief get the highest loggable transaction id
+ */
+int HtpTransactionGetLoggableId(Flow *f)
+{
+    SCEnter();
+
+    /* Get the parser state (if any) */
+    if (f->aldata == NULL) {
+        SCLogDebug("no aldata");
+        goto error;
+    }
+
+    AppLayerParserStateStore *parser_state_store =
+        (AppLayerParserStateStore *)f->aldata[app_layer_sid];
+
+    if (parser_state_store == NULL) {
+        SCLogDebug("no state store");
+        goto error;
+    }
+
+    int id = 0;
+
+    HtpState *http_state = f->aldata[AlpGetStateIdx(ALPROTO_HTTP)];
+    if (http_state == NULL) {
+        SCLogDebug("no http state");
+        goto error;
+    }
+
+    if (parser_state_store->id_flags & APP_LAYER_TRANSACTION_EOF) {
+        SCLogDebug("eof, return current transaction as well");
+        id = (int)(list_size(http_state->connp->conn->transactions));
+    } else {
+        id = (int)(parser_state_store->avail_id - 1);
+    }
+
+    SCReturnInt(id);
+
+error:
+    SCReturnInt(-1);
+}
+
 /**
  * \brief Print the information and chunks of a Body
  * \param body pointer to the HtpBody holding the list
diff --git a/src/app-layer-htp.h b/src/app-layer-htp.h
index d1bceaabdf..0a14f11549 100644
--- a/src/app-layer-htp.h
+++ b/src/app-layer-htp.h
@@ -112,6 +112,7 @@ void HTPFreeConfig(void);
 htp_tx_t *HTPTransactionMain(const HtpState *);
 
 int HTPCallbackRequestBodyData(htp_tx_data_t *);
+int HtpTransactionGetLoggableId(Flow *);
 void HtpBodyPrint(HtpBody *);
 void HtpBodyFree(HtpBody *);
 void AppLayerHtpRegisterExtraCallbacks(void);
diff --git a/src/app-layer-parser.c b/src/app-layer-parser.c
index 7b2c23aa11..4090ff71e8 100644
--- a/src/app-layer-parser.c
+++ b/src/app-layer-parser.c
@@ -56,7 +56,7 @@
 
 #include "util-debug.h"
 
-static uint16_t app_layer_sid = 0;
+uint16_t app_layer_sid = 0;
 static AppLayerProto al_proto_table[ALPROTO_MAX];   /**< Application layer protocol
                                                        table mapped to their
                                                        corresponding parsers */
diff --git a/src/app-layer-parser.h b/src/app-layer-parser.h
index 2cc24eeadb..92fa761d53 100644
--- a/src/app-layer-parser.h
+++ b/src/app-layer-parser.h
@@ -215,6 +215,8 @@ extern uint16_t app_layer_sid;
 
 struct AlpProtoDetectCtx_;
 
+extern uint16_t app_layer_sid;
+
 /* prototypes */
 void AppLayerParsersInitPostProcess(void);
 void RegisterAppLayerParsers(void);
diff --git a/src/log-httplog.c b/src/log-httplog.c
index a5d46f83f3..1c2bdc4595 100644
--- a/src/log-httplog.c
+++ b/src/log-httplog.c
@@ -129,7 +129,7 @@ TmEcode LogHttpLogIPv4(ThreadVars *tv, Packet *p, void *data, PacketQueue *pq, P
     }
     size_t logged = (size_t)r;
 
-    r = AppLayerTransactionGetLoggableId(p->flow);
+    r = HtpTransactionGetLoggableId(p->flow);
     if (r < 0) {
         goto end;
     }
@@ -245,7 +245,7 @@ TmEcode LogHttpLogIPv6(ThreadVars *tv, Packet *p, void *data, PacketQueue *pq, P
     }
     size_t logged = (size_t)r;
 
-    r = AppLayerTransactionGetLoggableId(p->flow);
+    r = HtpTransactionGetLoggableId(p->flow);
     if (r < 0) {
         goto end;
     }