varnishlog 2.1.5 record limit

Sébastien FOUTREL sfoutrel at gmail.com
Sat Mar 3 16:36:00 CET 2012


Hello, read your email and it seems to me you pointed the solution yourself :)

The answer in trac tells that the "limit" of 255 bytes is a default in
varnish but can be overlapped by a parameter.

My 3 cents. Hope it'll help.

Sebastien FOUTREL

2012/2/23 Thiago Figueiro <TFigueiro at au.westfield.com>:
> I'm using varnishlog (2.1.5) to help diagnose a production issue.  Specifically, I want to see the Cookie header from the client request:
>
>   76 RxHeader     c Cookie: __utmc=54987508; 90374957_clogin=l=1329292359&v=1&e=1329294317271; s_cc=true
> ; s_sq=%5B%5BB%5D%5D; session_start_time=1329292261764; __utmz=54987508.1329292460.1.1.utmcsr=(direct)|ut
> mccn=(direct)|utmcmd=(none); CoreID6=30738140851313292923591&ci=90
>
>
> All Cookies I investigated are suspiciously 250 bytes long.
>
> It seems that varnishlog truncates headers when writing to the binary log.
>
> Yep, it does truncate it... Google fu:
>
> https://www.varnish-cache.org/trac/ticket/528
>
> I am now in a situation where I can't determine what happened because I don't have enough information.  I can't replicate the issue because I don't know who the customer was.
>
> What would be the down-side of saving entire headers by default?  Any chances of re-opening that case as a change request?
>
>
> Thanks
>
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