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DCwebGuy
Inspiring
November 8, 2013
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coldfusion-error.log full of "INFO: Cookies: Unknown Special Cookie"?

  • November 8, 2013
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Why do I see all these messages in coldfusion-error.log? There are tons of them.  This is CF10/Win2008/IIS7.5.  Single server, medium site, pretty typical set up.

Nov 07, 2013 11:10:14 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies processCookieHeader

INFO: Cookies: Unknown Special Cookie

Nov 07, 2013 11:10:14 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies processCookieHeader

INFO: Cookies: Unknown Special Cookie

Nov 07, 2013 11:10:37 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies processCookieHeader

INFO: Cookies: Unknown Special Cookie

Nov 07, 2013 11:10:37 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies processCookieHeader

INFO: Cookies: Unknown Special Cookie

Nov 07, 2013 11:10:37 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies processCookieHeader

INFO: Cookies: Unknown Special Cookie

Nov 07, 2013 11:11:13 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies processCookieHeader

INFO: Cookies: Unknown Special Cookie

Nov 07, 2013 11:11:13 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies processCookieHeader

INFO: Cookies: Unknown Special Cookie

Nov 07, 2013 11:11:13 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies processCookieHeader

INFO: Cookies: Unknown Special Cookie

Nov 07, 2013 11:11:17 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies processCookieHeader

INFO: Cookies: Unknown Special Cookie

Nov 07, 2013 11:11:17 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies processCookieHeader

INFO: Cookies: Unknown Special Cookie

Nov 07, 2013 11:11:17 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies processCookieHeader

INFO: Cookies: Unknown Special Cookie

Nov 07, 2013 11:11:26 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies processCookieHeader

INFO: Cookies: Unknown Special Cookie

Nov 07, 2013 11:11:26 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies processCookieHeader

INFO: Cookies: Unknown Special Cookie

Nov 07, 2013 11:11:26 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies processCookieHeader

INFO: Cookies: Unknown Special Cookie

Nov 07, 2013 11:12:31 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies processCookieHeader

INFO: Cookies: Unknown Special Cookie

Nov 07, 2013 11:12:31 PM org.apache.tomcat.util.http.Cookies processCookieHeader

INFO: Cookies: Unknown Special Cookie

And so on.....

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Correct answer tribule

This is a known Tomcat issue. To stop the warnings, go to \cfusion\runtime\conf\logging.properties.Set org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].level to WARN and then restart CF.

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tribuleCorrect answer
Legend
November 8, 2013

This is a known Tomcat issue. To stop the warnings, go to \cfusion\runtime\conf\logging.properties.Set org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].level to WARN and then restart CF.

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DCwebGuyAuthor
Inspiring
November 14, 2013

Hi, again.  I did that but I'm still getting some of those errors in my log (yes, I restarted the server).  Here are other areas of that logging.properties file, and I wonder if the other values need to be changed from INFO to WARN as well?

############################################################

# Facility specific properties.

# Provides extra control for each logger.

############################################################

org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].level = WARN (this is the one I changed)

org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].handlers = 2localhost.org.apache.juli.FileHandler

org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/manager].level = INFO (what about this?)

org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/manager].handlers = 3manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler

org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/host-manager].level = INFO (and this?)

org.apache.catalina.core.ContainerBase.[Catalina].[localhost].[/host-manager].handlers = 4host-manager.org.apache.juli.FileHandler

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DCwebGuyAuthor
Inspiring
December 10, 2013

I recallI that I had three logging.properties files. Edit each and also look for a section called "Default global logging level" and ensure that this has ".level= SEVERE". The logging.properties files that I have are in c:\ColdFusion10\cfusion\runtime\conf\, c:\ColdFusion10\cfusion\jetty\jre\lib and c:\ColdFusion10\cfusion\jnbridge\jre\lib. If this doesn't work for you it may be best to email Adobe install support on cfinstal@adobe.com.


So I did that I think it finally helped with that specific log issue.  HOWEVER, by changing those log settings everywhere it prevented critical tiools like Jconsole and Jprofiler from running, so just FYI.

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