Bug 218902

Summary:	bugzilla advanced query generates over-long urls
Product:	[Community] Bugzilla	Reporter:	Jens Petersen <petersen>
Component:	Query/Bug List	Assignee:	PnT DevOps Devs <hss-ied-bugs>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	David Lawrence <dkl>
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Description Jens Petersen 2006-12-08 05:26:50 UTC

Description of problem:
If one uses the bugzilla query interface to generate searches
the url generated are very long.  They are usually too long to be pastable
in irc, etc.  Most of the fields set are empty by default.

Steps to Reproduce:
1. make a query for all open bugs CC someone@somewhere
  
Actual results:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?query_format=&short_desc_type=allwordssubstr&short_desc=+&version=&component_text=&query_format=advanced&bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&long_desc_type=substring&long_desc=&bug_file_loc_type=allwordssubstr&bug_file_loc=&status_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&status_whiteboard=&fixed_in_type=allwordssubstr&fixed_in=&qa_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&qa_whiteboard=&devel_whiteboard_type=allwordssubstr&devel_whiteboard=&keywords_type=allwords&keywords=&cust_facing=&cust_facing_type=substring&emailassigned_to1=1&emailtype1=exact&email1=&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=exact&email2=someone%40somewhere&bugidtype=include&bug_id=&votes=&changedin=&chfieldfrom=&chfieldto=Now&chfieldvalue=&cmdtype=doit


Expected results:
https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/buglist.cgi?bug_status=NEW&bug_status=ASSIGNED&bug_status=REOPENED&bug_status=NEEDINFO&ng&emailcc2=1&emailtype2=exact&email2=someone%40somewhere

Additional info:
It would be great if empty unneeded fields could be dropped from the query urls
to keep their length's sane.

Comment 1 Jens Petersen 2007-05-18 00:11:51 UTC

<https://bugzilla.redhat.com/bugzilla/query.cgi> uses POST
to send the information to bugzilla, so this should be fixable
on the bugzilla server side IMHO.

Comment 2 Jens Petersen 2007-05-18 03:22:04 UTC

Adding link to long-standing upstream bug.

Comment 3 Jens Petersen 2007-05-18 04:08:07 UTC

(In reply to comment #1)
> [query.cgi] uses POST to send the information to bugzilla,
> so this should be fixable on the bugzilla server side IMHO.

Err, this is incorrect, it uses GET.  See the upstream for details.