Re: Sniffer/Stats Issues Reviewed

Jason wrote:

> St.Ego wrote:
> 
>>...
>>FWIW, the affected client site that highlighted the issue and inspired
>>the fix was suffering from 20-30% traffic loss by the time it was
>>discovered.
>>
>>-St.Ego
> 
> 
> Good call. I think I was just on the point of blowing those limits myself, so it
> got caught just in time. Thanks :-)
> 
> Just how there can possibly be tens of thousands of user agent strings, I really
> don't know. It seems that far too many applications want to get themselves known
> to the inspectors of web logs.
> 
> -- JJ
> 

There's also very little reason why a UA string needs to be more than 
255 characters.  The one Chad discovered could be considered malformed, 
as it had an extraneous version/platform declaration and, being based on 
Windows media center/IE, had three .NET CLR versions and the specific 
developer's URL, 283 characters in all.