500 Internal error at YouTube
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Thanks for reminding
BTW, he is 3 years old.
I work on the YouTube Quality of Experience team. We measure time spent waiting for YouTube videos to load, and things like errors on video playback.
The next time your son has problems where he needs a YouTube monkey, you can give him a link to http://imgur.com/QZqAH2W
I'll keep an image of Coconut Monkey as backup..
Users are more comfortable with this way: they simply copy/paste the text to us and we have all the info we need.
In any case, even if, as you say, if the crypto handling system failed, and it returned nothing, there was no critical information that was lost. Only information on an error message, which you will hear from the user anyway.
Cool idea btw.
I wonder if someone could make sense of the error or if it's actually encrypted.
It's an interesting idea encrypting your error that I haven't seen in many places.
Generally i just do something like an sha of the error and time, and spit out like the first 10 bytes or something (as well as put that in the log line), i'm just looking for something i can grep for.
If it's symmetric-encrypted, then it's unforgeable, and it's safe to include private information, like IP address or recent video-viewing history, just in case someone posts a screenshot of it on HN.
It would be useful when things break so hard you don't even get a log.