[htdig-dev] Showstopper (Was: boolean terms in phrase - bug?)

[<lac...@ip...>]

Greetings all (especially Gabriele),

I think that this DoS bug is serious enough to be a showstopper for 3.2.0b6.
 I'll try to look at it over the weekend...

Lachlan

>-- Original Message --
>From: Christopher Murtagh <chr...@mc...>
>Subject: Re: [htdig-dev] boolean terms in phrase - bug?
>To: "Joe R. Jah" <jj...@cl...>
>Cc: htd...@li...
>Date: Wed, 09 Jun 2004 23:39:02 -0400
>
>
>On Wed, 2004-06-09 at 15:28, Joe R. Jah wrote:
>> It's a serious BUG;(
>
> That's what I thought. Thanks for the feedback. In my position, I'm
>fortunate that I have a php wrapper that is cleaning up all input before
>it is sent to htsearch, so I can write a little function that will strip
>these. However, it might be a good idea for the htdig team to let other
>folks who are currently using 3.2 in production about this as this makes
>it easy to cripple any machine running htdig 3.2 with boolean search
>feature.
>
>Cheers,
>
>Chris