in reply to "paren" breaks search facility

This could be a funny posting: I assume that _before_ you posted a node with the word 'paren' in it, actually something weird happened. Well, since you posted your node it just shows up in the list of found nodes. Maybe the title of your node should be changed, not to contain the buzzword, so we can see what goes wrong again?

Regards... Stefan
you begin bashing the string with a +42 regexp of confusion

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Re: Breaking The Search Facility - And Repairing it
by tommyw (Hermit) on Sep 17, 2001 at 14:36 UTC
    Thank you for the assuming that the behaviour has changed, rather than the fact that I've got things wrong. You're right: it has changed. Wierd!
    From work, I got a popup saying "Connection to www.perlmonks.org broken". From home, last night, I got a web page back, but it contained the text "Connection to server lost" (or similar).
    Wierdly, I got the same result last night with parenthesis, but now I just get thrown back to the gates.
    I'd be happy to change the title, but I don't know how, I'm afraid... Poor little newbie ;)

      Ok, I've got back to my home machine, since I was puzzled by the different behaviour I got in work.

      Home: Lynx 2.8.5 or Konqueror 2.2.1 on Mandrake
      Work: Konqy 2.2.1 on Solaris (from source)

      Searching on "pare" or "parenthesis" from home, using lynx gives me a "502 Server Hangup" warning. This is then followed by a mostly empty page:

                                       Server Hangup
           _________________________________________________________________
      
         Description: Server Hangup
           _________________________________________________________________
      
      With Konqy, I don't get the inital warning, just the error page.

      I've also tried it with "flibble", and get the same results. So I now suspect that there's a bug in the "zero hits" handler of the search engine (which explains why the problem on "paren" went away as soon as I reported it. Typical ;-)