Item408: WebSearchAdvanced has problems with quoted words and bookview is a server killer.

There are two issues with WebSearchAdvanced

First it has same issue as WebSearch with the URLPARAM inside SEARCH without encode="quote".

Worse it has a feature called bookview.

This creates a search result with the entire content of the found topics.

The feature as such is OK used in controlled searches that returns few topics.

But on a generic search topic it fails. The search for "Skin" in System web times out in the browser. It takes almost a minute to return.

On a production server with many webs and topics a couple of bookview searches in all webs is enough to launch a DOS attack.

In public the feature is horrible.

I will simply remove the feature from the page. It cannot be used for much in practical life. The bookview feature as such is still in Foswiki. Just not visible to fumbling users and search engines and attackers.

I am also fixing a wrong link to simple search.

-- KennethLavrsen - 07 Dec 2008