Why "Invalid idSite: '0'" is PHP error?

I periodically check site logs and see about ~400 errors per month like this: “Error in Matomo (tracker): Invalid idSite: ‘0’”.
I investigated the problem. It is somehow connected with UCBrowser V7.0.185.1002. The first visit from this browser generates a very strange request to piwik.php. But it is not a problem.

My question is: Why “Invalid idSite: ‘0’” is written to PHP error log at all? It is not a software problem. It is not an error. I think some bots can try to generate requests with wrong site IDs or without it at all.
It floods PHP error log and I can occasionally miss some real error.

I plan to modify \core\Tracker\Response.php

public function outputException(…)
{
Common::sendResponseCode($statusCode);
+++ if ($statusCode == 500)
$this->logExceptionToErrorLog($e);

but it is not a good solution because I should restore it after updates.

Is it possible (or planned) to make logs more versatile?

At the bottom of my tracker I have this line which is called by the browser if JavaScript isn’t enabled.

<noscript><p><img src="//rats.vsonline.com/piwik/piwik.php?idsite=1&rec=1" style="border:0;" alt="" /></p></noscript>

The documentation is all over the map with this, but the ‘idsite=’ should be lower case. If you use ‘idSite=’ with the uppercase S, this will cause the “invalid idSite: 0” error.

Change “idSite=” to “idsite=” and that should solve the issue.

Hi,

Can you point to the docs that are incorrect, so that they can be changed?

Thank you for your reply.
Our site has not noscript section for Piwik.
I can try to catch correct and wrong requests if needed.

But my main question was about logging.