Re: Sniffer/Stats Issues Reviewed

Marty Vance wrote:
> 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.

FWIW, approximately 1/5 to 1/3 of all the Sniffer table entries were 
truncated at max length to fit the field prior to the upgrade on that 
client site. I believe the issue is MUCH more widespread than it may be 
perceived.