928308 - [Search] Erroneous error messages in some cases

Status: RESOLVED DUPLICATE of bug 915760

(developer.mozilla.org Graveyard :: Search, defect)

Description

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

Go to:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/search?q=transform&topic=svg

And you get:
You didn't provide a search term. Try a new search!

The search term is 'transform', so this is not the correct error message.

Comment 1

[Kaustav Das Modak [:kaustavdm]]

What should be the correct error message in this case?

Comment 2

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

No idea, I don't even know why there is an error. Should have worked.

Comment 3

[David Walsh :davidwalsh]

SVG isn't a valid topic for said search, so I'm going to mark this as invalid.  We shouldn't allow just any topic to be appended to the URL.

Comment 4

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

This bug is about the message not being clear. It is not clear as we needed several hours to know why they was an error in this request

I have opened another bug about SVG not being a topic, which is another bug.

Comment 5

[Jean-Yves Perrier [:teoli]]

This is not a blocker. The error message happens in very unusual case. It is more making it clear to the user.

Comment 6

[Jannis Leidel [:jezdez]]

This isn't relevant anymore, see https://www.dropbox.com/s/0sfixhkmt9t56wt/Screenshot%202013-11-11%2021.53.21.png for a screenshot of the state of ticket 915760.