: I found a thread in the archive were someone mentioned the idea of : making this behaviour configurable (which characters to strip from the : query parameter). Is someone working on this or is my best option : currently to implement this behaviour by copying code from : DisMaxRequestHandler and modify the code that strips illegal operators?
I don't know of anyone working on it publicly. it's the kind of thing that is (or at least: should be) fairly trivial to hack a line or two of code to make it recognize "*" as a wildcard character ... the tricky part comes in making general improvements to the parser so it's more configurable and useful in more permutations of usecases. -Hoss
