Michael Welsh Duggan mwd@md5i.com writes:

Using Debian, dovecot-solr 1:2.2.26.0-4, and solr-tomcat 3.6.2+dfsg-9, I am getting 400 errors when doing searches. Here is an example search query from dovecot that failed (captured with wireshark):

Frame 23: 338 bytes on wire (2704 bits), 338 bytes captured (2704 bits) on interface 0 Linux cooked capture Internet Protocol Version 6, Src: ::1, Dst: ::1 Transmission Control Protocol, Src Port: 56860, Dst Port: 8080, Seq: 1, Ack: 1, Len: 250 Hypertext Transfer Protocol GET /solr/select?fl=uid,score&rows=2664&sort=uid+asc&q={!lucene+q.op%3dAND}(hdr:test+OR+body:test)&fq=%2Bbox:6d5de009f991854df726000012cf7b9c+%2Buser:md5i HTTP/1.1\r\n Host: localhost:8080\r\n Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2016 00:25:56 GMT\r\n Connection: Keep-Alive\r\n \r\n [Full request URI: http://localhost:8080/solr/select?fl=uid,score&rows=2664&sort=uid+asc&q={!lucene+q.op%3dAND}(hdr:test+OR+body:test)&fq=%2Bbox:6d5de009f991854df726000012cf7b9c+%2Buser:md5i] [HTTP request 1/1] [Response in frame: 25]

Here is the same query from firefox, which succeeds:

Frame 66: 646 bytes on wire (5168 bits), 646 bytes captured (5168 bits) on interface 0 Linux cooked capture Internet Protocol Version 6, Src: ::1, Dst: ::1 Transmission Control Protocol, Src Port: 56862, Dst Port: 8080, Seq: 1, Ack: 1, Len: 558 Hypertext Transfer Protocol GET /solr/select?fl=uid,score&rows=2664&sort=uid+asc&q=%7B!lucene+q.op%3DAND%7D(hdr:test+OR+body:test)&fq=%2Bbox:6d5de009f991854df726000012cf7b9c+%2Buser:md5i HTTP/1.1\r\n Host: localhost:8080\r\n Connection: keep-alive\r\n Cache-Control: max-age=0\r\n Upgrade-Insecure-Requests: 1\r\n User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/55.0.2883.75 Safari/537.36\r\n Accept: text/html,application/xhtml+xml,application/xml;q=0.9,image/webp,*/*;q=0.8\r\n DNT: 1\r\n Accept-Encoding: gzip, deflate, sdch, br\r\n Accept-Language: en-US,en;q=0.8\r\n \r\n [Full request URI: http://localhost:8080/solr/select?fl=uid,score&rows=2664&sort=uid+asc&q=%7B!lucene+q.op%3DAND%7D(hdr:test+OR+body:test)&fq=%2Bbox:6d5de009f991854df726000012cf7b9c+%2Buser:md5i] [HTTP request 1/1] [Response in frame: 86]

The salient difference seems to be the encoding of the braces. Indeed in the tomcat 8 logs, I find the following which seems to corroborate my hypothesis:

java.lang.IllegalArgumentException: Invalid character found in the request target. The valid characters are defined in RFC 7230 and RFC 3986 at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11InputBuffer.parseRequestLine(Http11InputBuffer.java:467) at org.apache.coyote.http11.Http11Processor.service(Http11Processor.java:667) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProcessorLight.process(AbstractProcessorLight.java:66) at org.apache.coyote.AbstractProtocol$ConnectionHandler.process(AbstractProtocol.java:789) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.NioEndpoint$SocketProcessor.doRun(NioEndpoint.java:1437) at org.apache.tomcat.util.net.SocketProcessorBase.run(SocketProcessorBase.java:49) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor.runWorker(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:1142) at java.util.concurrent.ThreadPoolExecutor$Worker.run(ThreadPoolExecutor.java:617) at org.apache.tomcat.util.threads.TaskThread$WrappingRunnable.run(TaskThread.java:61) at java.lang.Thread.run(Thread.java:745)

Indeed the braces are listed in fts-backend-solr.c as part of solr_escape_chars, so don't know how the braces are making it through unencoded.

I have attached a patch which solves this problem. I initially tried changing http_url_escape_param() to include braces, but this did not solve the problem. I have to guess that the {!lucene+q.op=AND} bit does not travel through this function. So I just changed the braces in the lines where they were introduced into their encoded values. Since the equals-sign was already encoded this way there, it seemed to make sense.

-- Michael Welsh Duggan (md5i@md5i.com)