Sphinx Search borks if search contains a /

[Chris St. Pierre]

If you enter a search string with a forward slash in it, Sphinx Search erroneously reports:

Could not connect to Sphinx search engine.

In the code, it doesn't appear to check what error it got, just if there was an error. In this case, the error is:

index dk_main: syntax error, unexpected '/' near '/b*) | (@(body,title) a/b)'.

My thought is that it would probably be best to just strip forward slashes (and any other illegal characters) from the query before searching. Whatever the course of action, claiming a connection error has occurred is certainly not the right thing.

[Ivinco (info-ivinco)]

Hello, what version do you use?
I testing forward slash and it works fine.
Could you provide example of query?

[Chris St. Pierre (stpierre)]

I am using the 2010-03-31 release of Sphinx Search, and Sphinx v.1.10
(which is what's available for RHEL 5).

It looks like the bug is caused by any query that contains a forward
slash in any position but the final position. So the following all
cause problems:

/foo
foo/bar

The following are fine:

foo/
foo/bar/
/

Thanks.

On Thu, Jun 9, 2011 at 9:04 AM, Ivinco <email address hidden> wrote:
> Hello, what version do you use?
> I testing forward slash and it works fine.
> Could you provide example of query?
>
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> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/794669
>
> Title:
>  Sphinx Search borks if search contains a /
>
> Status in DokuWiki Sphinx Search plugin:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  If you enter a search string with a forward slash in it, Sphinx Search
>  erroneously reports:
>
>  Could not connect to Sphinx search engine.
>
>  In the code, it doesn't appear to check what error it got, just if
>  there was an error.  In this case, the error is:
>
>  index dk_main: syntax error, unexpected '/' near '/b*) |
>  (@(body,title) a/b)'.
>
>  My thought is that it would probably be best to just strip forward
>  slashes (and any other illegal characters) from the query before
>  searching.  Whatever the course of action, claiming a connection error
>  has occurred is certainly not the right thing.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/dokuwiki-sphinxsearch/+bug/794669/+subscriptions
>

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Chris St. Pierre

[Ivinco (info-ivinco)]

I can't reproduce the bug.
What version of DokuWiki Sphinx Search plugin do you use?
What version of DokuWiki do you use?

[Chris St. Pierre (stpierre)]

I am using the 2010-03-31 release of Sphinx Search, and the 2009-12-25
release of Dokuwiki.

On Tue, Jun 21, 2011 at 2:48 AM, Ivinco <email address hidden> wrote:
> I can't reproduce the bug.
> What version of DokuWiki Sphinx Search plugin do you use?
> What version of DokuWiki do you use?
>
> --
> You received this bug notification because you are subscribed to the bug
> report.
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/794669
>
> Title:
>  Sphinx Search borks if search contains a /
>
> Status in DokuWiki Sphinx Search plugin:
>  New
>
> Bug description:
>  If you enter a search string with a forward slash in it, Sphinx Search
>  erroneously reports:
>
>  Could not connect to Sphinx search engine.
>
>  In the code, it doesn't appear to check what error it got, just if
>  there was an error.  In this case, the error is:
>
>  index dk_main: syntax error, unexpected '/' near '/b*) |
>  (@(body,title) a/b)'.
>
>  My thought is that it would probably be best to just strip forward
>  slashes (and any other illegal characters) from the query before
>  searching.  Whatever the course of action, claiming a connection error
>  has occurred is certainly not the right thing.
>
> To manage notifications about this bug go to:
> https://bugs.launchpad.net/dokuwiki-sphinxsearch/+bug/794669/+subscriptions
>

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Chris St. Pierre