8 Aug
2003
8 Aug
'03
5:47 p.m.
if you search from http://openguides.org/london/supersearch.cgi
you get a page not found
--
Bob Walker
http://www.randomness.org.uk/
Alan Moore knows the score
9 Aug
9 Aug
1:38 p.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bob Walker" <bob(a)randomness.org.uk>
To: <openguides-dev(a)openguides.org>
Sent: 08 August 2003 17:47
Subject: [OpenGuides-Dev] bug in search
if you search from
http://openguides.org/london/supersearch.cgi
you get a page not found
Interesting... I've noticed that the search box on the Supersearch page is broken, and
I've just done some more digging to find
that:
I don't get the problem on un.earth.li
The Oxford site seems to work correctly.
Anyway, the technical details are as follows:
The HTML is being generated by CGI.pm, in particular start_form, which has not been
supplied with an -action parameter, hence it
sould reinvoke the same script with a new query string.
What we are seeing is that something has munged forward slashes into %2F - but we want
real forward slashes! This is getting
prepended with http://openguides.org/london/ resulting in a mess.
Any idea where this extra munging is coming from? It could be that there are different
versions of CGI.pm floating around.
I cannot reproduce the problem outside of OG London.
Help please.
Ivor.
12 Aug
12 Aug
2:25 p.m.
On Sat 09 Aug 2003, Ivor Williams <ivor.williams(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
The HTML is being generated by CGI.pm, in particular
start_form,
which has not been supplied with an -action parameter, hence it
sould reinvoke the same script with a new query string.
What we are seeing is that something has munged forward slashes into
%2F - but we want real forward slashes! This is getting prepended
with http://openguides.org/london/ resulting in a mess.
Any idea where this extra munging is coming from? It could be that
there are different versions of CGI.pm floating around.
Try running supersearch.cgi under CGI.pm 2.99 (the latest) and 2.98,
and you will see that it works right with 2.98 but not 2.99.
In general I would suggest not using CGI.pm unless it's absolutely
necessary. Just write the HTML in a TT template. Ivor, are you going
to get time soon to fix the search or should I add it to my to-do list?
Kake
13 Aug
13 Aug
12:21 a.m.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Kate L Pugh" <kake(a)earth.li>
To: <openguides-dev(a)openguides.org>
Sent: 12 August 2003 14:25
Subject: Re: [OpenGuides-Dev] bug in search
On Sat 09 Aug 2003, Ivor Williams
<ivor.williams(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
I seriously intend to do this. Fixing supersearch is top of the list of things for
OpenGuides. So I'll get onto it.
Ivor.
The HTML is being generated by CGI.pm, in
particular start_form,
which has not been supplied with an -action parameter, hence it
sould reinvoke the same script with a new query string.
What we are seeing is that something has munged forward slashes into
%2F - but we want real forward slashes! This is getting prepended
with http://openguides.org/london/ resulting in a mess.
Any idea where this extra munging is coming from? It could be that
there are different versions of CGI.pm floating around.
Try running supersearch.cgi under CGI.pm 2.99 (the latest) and 2.98,
and you will see that it works right with 2.98 but not 2.99.
In general I would suggest not using CGI.pm unless it's absolutely
necessary. Just write the HTML in a TT template. Ivor, are you going
to get time soon to fix the search or should I add it to my to-do list?
1 Sep
1 Sep
3:27 p.m.
From: "Kate L Pugh" <kake(a)earth.li>li>:
> In general I would suggest not using CGI.pm unless
it's absolutely
> necessary. Just write the HTML in a TT template. Ivor, are you going
> to get time soon to fix the search or should I add it to my to-do list?
On Wed 13 Aug 2003, Ivor Williams <ivor.williams(a)tiscali.co.uk> wrote:
I seriously intend to do this. Fixing supersearch is
top of the list
of things for OpenGuides. So I'll get onto it.
I got itchy about how long this has been broken for, and so I JFDI and
reworked supersearch.cgi into a module (OpenGuides::SuperSearch), a
template, and a very short CGI script that just calls the ->run method
on the module. There are of course tests as well. I've checked all
this into CVS on un and would appreciate it if Ivor could have a look
at it. I'd like to release this within the next couple of days,
preferably tomorrow. Tonight would be even better but I appreciate
that Ivor doesn't get online too much.
People without un accounts can see the tarball here, but note this is
a temp directory and once this release is on CPAN I'll delete the
temporary one:
http://the.earth.li/~kake/tmp/OpenGuides-0.24.tar.gz
You can see this version of OpenGuides in action at
http://un.earth.li/~kake/cgi-bin/wiki.cgi
The refactor of the search is the major change between this version
and the live one.
Kake
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