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Item12166: searching for '*' causes WebSearch to crash

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Priority: Urgent
Current State: Closed
Released In: 1.1.6
Target Release: patch
Applies To: Engine
Component: SEARCH
Branches: Release01x01 trunk
Reported By: SvenDowideit
Waiting For:
Last Change By: GeorgeClark
http://foswiki.org/About/WebSearch?search=*&scope=all&web=Home%2CAbout%2CSystem%2CExtensions%2CSupport%2CCommunity%2CDevelopment%2CDownload%2CTasks%2CMain

basically, I just entered * into the topbar search box.

-- SvenDowideit - 18 Oct 2012

I just tried this on foswiki.org, no crash. worked fine. The display was corrupted a bit I think due to a task summary that added some html.

What was the crash? If it was a 500, could it possibly be because the fcgi search ran too long and timed out the fcgi process.

-- GeorgeClark - 22 Oct 2012

When I click on that link, I get a WebSearch page with only

Could not perform search. Error was: Quantifier follows nothing in regex; marked by <-- HERE in m/(\b.{0,30}\b)\b((?i:* <-- HERE ))\b(\b.{0,30}\b)/

which internally is a crash - the browser output is our boilerplate, but that is busted.

I have a test and a fix for this, but i need to play with it some more

-- SvenDowideit - 05 Nov 2012
 
Topic revision: r9 - 02 Dec 2012, GeorgeClark
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