13304 - many special characters handled incorrectly in text searches

Status: VERIFIED DUPLICATE of bug 2739

(Webtools Graveyard :: MXR, defect, P3)

Description

[Dan Mosedale (:dmosedale, :dmose)]

Including a space character in a search doesn't work because it is URL-encoded
as a +, and support for that has been commented out in
lib/LXR/Common.pm:http_wash{}

Including any of <>|\"\'\` in a search fails because of security code in
http_wash{} that is attempting to clean anything that might be passed to open().

The right fix is probably to either parameterize http_wash{}, or split it up
into two routines: one that cleans for stuff passed to open(), and one that
cleans (presumably much less strictly) for stuff passed to the glimpse binary by
exec().

Comment 1

[Mike Shaver (:shaver emeritus)]

smfr cares too, I think.

Comment 2

[Simon Fraser [no longer active]]

I care so much that I filed duplicate bug 13056.

Comment 3

[Dawn Endico]

this is a duplicate, and also fixed

*** This bug has been marked as a duplicate of 2739 ***

Comment 4

[Sebastian Späth]

VERIFY dupe, to clean up a little bit