https://bugzilla.wikimedia.org/show_bug.cgi?id=60184
Web browser: ---
Bug ID: 60184
Summary: Analytics: Can we start quoting our logging fields?
Product: Analytics
Version: unspecified
Hardware: All
OS: All
Status: NEW
Severity: normal
Priority: Unprioritized
Component: General/Unknown
Assignee: wikibugs-l@lists.wikimedia.org
Reporter: oke...@wikimedia.org
CC: christ...@quelltextlich.at, dvanli...@gmail.com
Classification: Unclassified
Mobile Platform: ---
I'm sat here looking at a 6MB user agent field. It's not /actually/ a 6MB user
agent field, it's a user agent field where some browser designer decided "let's
put tabs in our UA, that won't cause anyone any problems!" and so, of course,
the tab-separated files we store our logs in happily escaped it, meaning that
when the TSV was read in, the field overflowed.
In the absence of hunting down the people who made that decision at the browser
end and forcing them to use the internet through an early and experimental IE
version for all of time, could we start quoting the fields in the request logs?
I'm not sure how Erik Z reads his files in, but if it's tab-sensitive we're
potentially looking at a data loss issue with wikistats. If it's not, we're
looking at a data loss issue with my work. Either is to be avoided ;p.
Obviously VK will solve for this once it's dealing with the whole firehose.
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