Errors using HttpUseridModule

[Gabriel Arrais]

Francis Daly wrote in post #1133402:
> On Thu, Jan 16, 2014 at 11:15:55PM +0100, Gabriel Arrais wrote:
>> Francis Daly wrote in post #1133390:
>
> Hi there,
>
>> > Are they all coming from a particular browser version, for example?
>>
>> For now, I can't see any pattern and the error logs (how they are
>> formatted now) does not help me, they don't pass the user-agent data.
>
> Error logs usually don't include that information. Access logs
> frequently
> do, and it is often possible to tie log lines together based on
> timestamp
> and url. If you have the information, it may be a useful data point to
> see whether the problems are associated with only one specific old
> version
> of a browser, where newer versions of the same thing browser no problem,
> for example.
>

I will try do this.

>> > If they are allowed, then nginx should probably be changed to accept
>> > them. If they are not, then the client should probably be changed not
>> > to send them.
>>
>> Yes, I think if that is the case, nginx could be more permissive...
>
> Reading more closely, I still can't tell whether the surrounding quotes
> are actively forbidden; but they are certainly advised against unless
> the cookie was flagged as new, which I think nginx default ones are not.
>
> I would tend to invite the client to become fixed, or invite the user
> to change clients. But that's because it costs me nothing to do so.
>

It's very difficult to do this in our product =/

>> Anyway I will leave here another log entry with the same
>> error but a different value in the cookie.
>>
>> 2014/01/15 23:46:50 [error] 1577#0: *18789665 client sent too short
>> userid cookie "sid=", client: xx.xx.xx.xx, server: xxxxxxx, request:
>
> There the cookie named "sid" has no value. I suspect more information
> will be needed to know what is happening here -- was it somehow set
> blank by something else running through nginx?

I have nothing running through nginx that could be corrupting this 
cookie

> Or is it an attempt by
> the client to see what happens when they manually change things?
>

Maybe, but I don't think that it is the case...

> Good luck with it,
>
>   f
> --
> Francis Daly        francis at daoine.org

Thank you again Francis!

Gabriel Arrais        gabriel.arrais at vtex.com.br

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