New error log noise

[William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net>]

[Tue Mar 20 14:47:49.048998 2018] [proxy:error] [pid 291243:tid
139804071643008] AH02808: Alert! worker name
(fcgi://localhost:9001//home/build/dev/piv/oss-httpd-build/bld-candidate/httpdtest-trunk/t/htdocs/)
too long; truncated to:
fcgi://localhost:9001//home/build/dev/piv/oss-httpd-build/bld-candidate/httpdtest-trunk/t/htdoc

Is this really necessary to be at proxy -error- level? Seems to
nothing more than info, as the truncated name will generally not cause
harm.

Re: New error log noise

[William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net>]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 4:26 PM, Yann Ylavic <yl...@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 8:58 PM, William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote:
>> [Tue Mar 20 14:47:49.048998 2018] [proxy:error] [pid 291243:tid
>> 139804071643008] AH02808: Alert! worker name
>> (fcgi://localhost:9001//home/build/dev/piv/oss-httpd-build/bld-candidate/httpdtest-trunk/t/htdocs/)
>> too long; truncated to:
>> fcgi://localhost:9001//home/build/dev/piv/oss-httpd-build/bld-candidate/httpdtest-trunk/t/htdoc
>>
>> Is this really necessary to be at proxy -error- level? Seems to
>> nothing more than info, as the truncated name will generally not cause
>> harm.
>
> The name is what is used to match the workers against each others or
> the runtime URLs, so truncation may not be benign if it leads to
> (supposedly-)different workers be considered the same one or different
> URLs be directed there because of it.
>
> So it looks like a real error potentially to me, though not
> necessarily one that should prevent startup.

I don't believe startup was inhibited.

You are correct that if we attempt to add a new named member whose
truncated length matches an already-established member, that is a
serious error condition and should be reported as such (and perhaps
inhibit startup.)

As an informational alert of a not-clashing name, 'error' severity seems
too loud.

Re: New error log noise

[Yann Ylavic <yl...@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Mar 20, 2018 at 8:58 PM, William A Rowe Jr <wr...@rowe-clan.net> wrote:
> [Tue Mar 20 14:47:49.048998 2018] [proxy:error] [pid 291243:tid
> 139804071643008] AH02808: Alert! worker name
> (fcgi://localhost:9001//home/build/dev/piv/oss-httpd-build/bld-candidate/httpdtest-trunk/t/htdocs/)
> too long; truncated to:
> fcgi://localhost:9001//home/build/dev/piv/oss-httpd-build/bld-candidate/httpdtest-trunk/t/htdoc
>
> Is this really necessary to be at proxy -error- level? Seems to
> nothing more than info, as the truncated name will generally not cause
> harm.

The name is what is used to match the workers against each others or
the runtime URLs, so truncation may not be benign if it leads to
(supposedly-)different workers be considered the same one or different
URLs be directed there because of it.

So it looks like a real error potentially to me, though not
necessarily one that should prevent startup.