Bug 524927 - Internal Server Error when search contains some characters
Summary: Internal Server Error when search contains some characters
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Status: CLOSED WONTFIX
Alias: None
Product: freeIPA
Classification: Retired
Component: WebUI
Version: 1.2
Hardware: x86_64
OS: Linux
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Target Milestone: ---
Assignee: Rob Crittenden
QA Contact: Chandrasekar Kannan
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Blocks: freeipa10
TreeView+ depends on / blocked
 
Reported: 2009-09-22 18:03 UTC by Tomasz 'Zen' Napierala
Modified: 2015-01-04 23:40 UTC (History)
3 users (show)

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Last Closed: 2010-02-03 20:16:26 UTC
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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


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