[Search-l] Open search for Wikia search and its bug

Balinny balinny at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 21:02:59 UTC 2008


Shun Fukuzawa wrote:
> Hi,
>
> GOGA, Japanese software venture, released Open search tool for wikia search.
> http://www.goga.co.jp/company/news.html
> Though this page written in Japanese, please click "Search Wikia" link
> on Firefox 2.0 or IE 7.
>
> The file is http://www.goga.co.jp/wikia_search.xml
>
> But inputting two or more words on this tool, wikia search returns
> wrong results. For example, inputting "wikia search", wikia search
> searches "wikia+search" including "+".
>   
It shows wikia+search but the search is correctly performed on wikia search.

> Is this bug up to Wikia search? Or this file
Firefox urlencodes the parameter, expecting it to be sent in a query string.
But Wikia Search gets it literal, and when javascripts does the query, the
server decodes it sendging the right results. 


PS: We should ahve it with the cloud!



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