Bug 524927

Summary:	Internal Server Error when search contains some characters
Product:	[Retired] freeIPA	Reporter:	Tomasz 'Zen' Napierala <tomasz>
Component:	WebUI	Assignee:	Rob Crittenden <rcritten>
Status:	CLOSED WONTFIX	QA Contact:	Chandrasekar Kannan <ckannan>
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Priority:	low
Version:	1.2	CC:	benl, dpal, jgalipea
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Description Tomasz 'Zen' Napierala 2009-09-22 18:03:28 UTC

Description of problem:
Putting some characters in searchbox when searching for users (not groups) is throwing 500 error:
An unexpected error occured
HTTP Error Message:

500 - Internal Server Error

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
1.2.1-2.fc10.x86_64

How reproducible:
Almost every time when specific character is used as search string

Steps to Reproduce:
1. Put one character (especially polish diacritics ŁłŃń) in searchbox, select Users (default)
2. Click on "Search" button or hit enter 

Actual results:
An unexpected error occured
HTTP Error Message:

500 - Internal Server Error


Expected results:
User found or no results 

Additional info:
I can't find regular pattern in characters. The more characters I was trying, the more error results I was having. Some character, that previously were perfectly OK, started throwing errors. Looks like memory leak. Apache and ipa_webgui restart didn't help
Please let me know if you need more debugging (but keep in mind that this is production system)

Comment 1 Rob Crittenden 2009-09-23 13:52:37 UTC

IPA v1 doesn't handle non-ASCII character sets very well. We added support in a couple of places but more and more kept appearing. We're addressing this in v2 where we are re-architecting it to handle this better.

Comment 2 Rob Crittenden 2010-02-03 20:16:26 UTC

I'm going to go ahead and close this as WONTFIX as we aren't planning on addressing this in IPA v1.x