Question

In the eventlogger, if i change the Min log level to “Debug info” and do some network calls, I have noticed that the connection factory logs the network url .For example , I saw this

guid:0x287F0A38583E7BC6 time: Mon Jan 21 18:29:15 2013 severity:5 type:2 app:net.rim.networkapi data:FcoC https://xyz.co.uk/abc/test?appversion=1.2.3&;deviceside=false;ConnectionType=mds-public;ConnectionTimeout=20000;EndToEndRequired

This happens for all the apps I work for. Is there any way we could do something to avoid the connectionfactory from logging this information in the event logger

Answer 1

You were right, the full URL is logged with severity 5 (EventLogger.DEBUG_INFO) by the app net.rim.networkapi data. Sometimes, when using Wi-Fi or direct TCP, the URL is even logged twice. This can be a security problem as hosts and querystrings are logged.

Changing the severity level to EventLogger.INFORMATION seems to prevent the undesired logging.

Sample app (manually clean event logger first):

    public class Main extends Application{

        public Main(){
            doTest();
        }

        private void doTest(){
            long GUID = 0x9cf1bac07b565732L; 
            EventLogger.register(GUID, "conn_factory_logging_test", EventLogger.VIEWER_STRING);
            EventLogger.setMinimumLevel(EventLogger.INFORMATION);

            ConnectionFactory factory = new ConnectionFactory();
            factory.setPreferredTransportTypes(new int[]{ TransportInfo.TRANSPORT_TCP_WIFI, TransportInfo.TRANSPORT_TCP_CELLULAR});
            ConnectionDescriptor cd = factory.getConnection("http://www.google.com");
            HttpConnection httpConnection = (HttpConnection) cd.getConnection();
            try {
                httpConnection.setRequestMethod(HttpConnection.GET);
                int responseCode = httpConnection.getResponseCode();
                String result = "Server Response: " + responseCode;

                EventLogger.logEvent(GUID, result.getBytes(), EventLogger.INFORMATION);
                EventLogger.startEventLogViewer();          
            } catch (Exception e) {
                System.err.println(e);
            } finally {
                try {
                    httpConnection.close();
                } catch (IOException e) {}
            }       
            System.exit(0);
        }

        public static void main(String[] args){
             new Main().enterEventDispatcher();
        }
    }