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David Smiley commented on SOLR-3161:
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I was looking at the logs of Solr's example config, unmodified and I noticed
something troubling that I haven't noticed before:
{noformat}
WARNING: [] Null Request Handler
'null':{event=firstSearcher&q=static+firstSearcher+warming+in+solrconfig.xml}
{noformat}
It turns out that the default="true" attribute on the request handler actually
does something :-) In RequestHandlers.initHandlersFromConfig() line 164 it
checks this flag and registers the handler under the "" name.
QuerySenderListener.newSearcher() line 59 does a lookup of "qt" from the its
configuration (e.g. firstSearcher) getting null and then calling
SolrCore.execute(null,...).
Given that "/select" is referenced as a default in about a dozen places in Solr
(.java source, excluding tests), it seems to me that if no request handler is
marked as default then "/select" should become the default automatically (if
present). Interestingly a similar check occurs as the very last line of
RequestHandlers.initHandlersFromConfig() but for a request handler named
"standard" -- which seems like a very old way things used to be (seems like a
candidate for updating in Solr 4 to "/select"). So I propose that if
"standard" isn't found, then it tries "/select".
> Use of 'qt' should be restricted to searching and should not start with a '/'
> -----------------------------------------------------------------------------
>
> Key: SOLR-3161
> URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/SOLR-3161
> Project: Solr
> Issue Type: Improvement
> Components: search, web gui
> Reporter: David Smiley
> Assignee: David Smiley
> Fix For: 3.6, 4.0
>
> Attachments: SOLR-3161-disable-qt-by-default.patch,
> SOLR-3161-dispatching-request-handler.patch,
> SOLR-3161-dispatching-request-handler.patch,
> SOLR-3161_limit_qt=_____to_refer_to_SearchHandlers,_and_shards_qt_likewise.patch
>
>
> I haven't yet looked at the code involved for suggestions here; I'm speaking
> based on how I think things should work and not work, based on intuitiveness
> and security. In general I feel it is best practice to use '/' leading
> request handler names and not use "qt", but I don't hate it enough when used
> in limited (search-only) circumstances to propose its demise. But if someone
> proposes its deprecation that then I am +1 for that.
> Here is my proposal:
> Solr should error if the parameter "qt" is supplied with a leading '/'.
> (trunk only)
> Solr should only honor "qt" if the target request handler extends
> solr.SearchHandler.
> The new admin UI should only use 'qt' when it has to. For the query screen,
> it could present a little pop-up menu of handlers to choose from, including
> "/select?qt=mycustom" for handlers that aren't named with a leading '/'. This
> choice should be positioned at the top.
> And before I forget, me or someone should investigate if there are any
> similar security problems with the shards.qt parameter. Perhaps shards.qt can
> abide by the same rules outlined above.
> Does anyone foresee any problems with this proposal?
> On a related subject, I think the notion of a default request handler is bad
> - the default="true" thing. Honestly I'm not sure what it does, since I
> noticed Solr trunk redirects '/solr/' to the new admin UI at '/solr/#/'.
> Assuming it doesn't do anything useful anymore, I think it would be clearer
> to use <requestHandler name="/select" class="solr.SearchHandler"> instead of
> what's there now. The delta is to put the leading '/' on this request handler
> name, and remove the "default" attribute.
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