Wednesday, October 12, 2005

Webtrends irregularity

Webtrends crashed while running reports. Without some significant research I don't think I'll be able to determine the cause, so for now I'll just note the cause. The following two lines seem to be the source of the problem.

2005-09-07 19:42:49 202.147.177.70 - W3SVC12 PROJECT2061 198.151.218.130 80 GET /cgi-bin/404.asp 404;http://www.project2061.org/tools/benchol/ch2/ch2.htm 301 0 737 655 16 HTTP/1.0 www.project2061.org Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+5.0;+Windows+98;+{8EDEB5C2-2006-EB20-6F16-6A2EFD0A5822}) - http://www.google.com/search?q=uses+and+application+of+maths+in+every+day+life&hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&start=30&sa=N

2005-09-07 20:14:52 202.147.177.70 - W3SVC12 PROJECT2061 198.151.218.130 80 GET /cgi-bin/404.asp 404;http://www.project2061.org/tools/benchol/ch2/ch2.htm 301 0 595 624 15 HTTP/1.0 www.project2061.org Mozilla/4.0+(compatible;+MSIE+5.0;+Windows+98;+{8EDEB5C2-2006-EB20-6F16-6A2EFD0A5822}) WEBTRENDS_ID=202.147.177.70-1418417440.29733860::8840CACE7014C0BFF54DA08DCA0E1F1B -


Update 2005-10-13:
Found some more lines causing a Webrends crash. More of the same, I suspect the cause may be the user agent string having the curly brackets {}. I didn't see it before because I was running on just the web content, so not all those lines were being loaded. I'm not going to bother noting the lines below; they're on the same IP and thus easy enough to find in the log.