plus sign nuisance in live search

[miohtama]

IE 6.0 + Windows XP + Plone 2.1.2

Type "C++" in the live search field. You'll get a status bar message "errors on the page". Probably Javascript goes haywire. Search seems to work, though.

[hannosch]

Yep, verified. Happens in IE if there's a ++ anywhere in the search string. Javascript error message tells me something like 'resource could not be downloaded'.

[ree]

(In [9784]) fixeS #5204: livesearch works with ++ and otherwise fixed too

Few issues fixed, some is extra to the original report:

• The javascript properly escapes + when making the XMLHttpRequest
• named entities are replaced by numbered ones in the response

(this blathers error in some browsers since the response is xml not html)

• the "more items" query in the response is properly escaped too
• strip all meta characters from the query (+*-?)

Otherwise C++ does not really look for C++ but for C. The same happens with other characters like *, -, ? too. Problem is the catalog splits on words and all non-word chars are handled equally like a space. We can do more once the catalog handles these in another way.

[ree]

(In [9785]) fixeS #5204: livesearch works with ++ and otherwise fixed too

Few issues fixed, some is extra to the original report:

• The javascript properly escapes + when making the XMLHttpRequest
• named entities are replaced by numbered ones in the response

(this blathers error in some browsers since the response is xml not html)

• the "more items" query in the response is properly escaped too
• strip all meta characters from the query (+*-?)

Otherwise C++ does not really look for C++ but for C. The same happens with other characters like *, -, ? too. Problem is the catalog splits on words and all non-word chars are handled equally like a space. We can do more once the catalog handles these in another way.