Comment 2 for bug 794669

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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> 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.
>
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Chris St. Pierre