: it turns the plus(es) into spaces. Is this a tomcat setting or a solr : one to stop this happening? How can I get the plus into solr so it : actually means a required word.
It's part of the URL specification -- all of your query params (not just the query string) need to be properly URL escaped regardless of what QParser you use... http://wiki.apache.org/solr/SolrQuerySyntax#NOTE:_URL_Escaping_Special_Characters http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding -Hoss -- http://lucenerevolution.org/ ... October 7-8, Boston http://bit.ly/stump-hoss ... Stump The Chump!
