At the admin console, surrounding with "" worked fine. Many thanks Jack
On Mon, Jan 21, 2013 at 11:24 AM, Jack Krupansky <j...@basetechnology.com> wrote: > The colons are probably okay. It is probably the slashes causing the > problem. An embedded slash now terminates the preceding term and starts a > regular expression term (that is terminated by a second slash). > > Solution: quote each slash with a backslash. > > ResourceURLPropertyType:http:\/\/someserver.org\/something > > Or, enclose the URL in quotes. > > ResourceURLPropertyType:"http://someserver.org/something"; > > -- Jack Krupansky > > -----Original Message----- From: Jack Park > Sent: Monday, January 21, 2013 1:41 PM > To: solr-user@lucene.apache.org > Subject: When a URL is a component of a query string's data? > > > There exists in my Solr index a document (several, actually) which > harbor http:// URL values. Trying to find documents with a particular > URL fails. > > The query is like this: > ResourceURLPropertyType:http://someserver.org/something > > Fails due to the second ":" > > If I substitute %3a into that query, e.g. > ResourceURLPropertyType:http$3a//someserver.org/something > the query goes through and finds nothing. > > A fork in the road? > Make it a policy to swap %3a into all URL values going to Solr, then > use the same format in search. > or > Find another way to get the query to work with the full URL, > untouched, in the index. > > Googling this one has been difficult due to the ambiguity of "url" in > query strings. > > Thoughts? > > Many thanks in advance > Jack
