[Lxr-dev] [ lxr-Bugs-695699 ] Cannot search for quote characters

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Bugs item #695699, was opened at 2003-03-01 19:35
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Category: None
Group: None
Status: Open
Resolution: None
Priority: 5
Submitted By: Jon Foster (jongfoster)
Assigned to: Nobody/Anonymous (nobody)
Summary: Cannot search for quote characters

Initial Comment:
Hi,

I was trying to do a freetext search on lxr.linux.no
for the string "0" - the quote characters are part of
the search.  Clicking search takes me to this URL:
http://lxr.linux.no/search?string=%220%22

Which just displays:
Abort!
** Aborting: Illegal characters in HTTP-parameters.

It seems perfectly reasonable to me to want to search
for a C quoted string in a C program.

Similarly, searching for '0' (including the single
quotes) takes me to this URL:
http://lxr.linux.no/search?string=%270%27
Which has the same error message.

I suspect that this is an anti-script-kiddie feature
(if you are passing strings on the command line and
want to prevent quoting attacks like the recent KDE
3.0.4 hole), so maybe this is a RFE (check everything
is quote-safe then disable the anti-script-kiddie
feature) rather than a bug.

Kind regards,

Jon Foster.


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