Re: POSTing to /select

[Erik Hatcher]

On Jun 17, 2009, at 12:01 PM, Brian_K wrote:

Is it possible to query /select using http POST rather than GET?  Is  
the
syntax different it so?

When I try, I receive an 500 response and a big fat exception.

java.lang.NullPointerException
        at java.io.StringReader.<init>(Unknown Source)
	at org.apache.lucene.queryParser.QueryParser.parse(QueryParser.java: 
169

Yes, POST works fine... I think you just missed providing the q  
parameter, which is required in the most basic case.

        Erik