[ic] Apply strip filter globally

[Stefan Hornburg (Racke)]

Mike Heins wrote:
> Quoting Jon Jensen (jon at endpoint.com):
>> On Thu, 5 Jun 2008, jimbo wrote:
>>
>>>>>> Filter  email.*   strip
>>>>>> Filter  text.*    entities
>>>> And I can imagine one wouldn't want to be stripping anything from a search
>>>> query, in case I want to search for ' able', I would not want to have
>>>> returned 'table', 'lable', 'stable' etc ... So not my times that you'd not
>>>> want to strip, but this would be one of them.
>>> Then override it, just as it's done now for any default configuration
>>> setting. I don't like the default interpolate=1 for [filter] so I simply
>>> override it. Big deal. Boo, hoo, hoo. I suspect you can do the same.
>> How do you propose the override mechanism should work? Tags are called 
>> explicitly somewhere, whereas this filter would happen at page load time 
>> behind the scenes. Where would we override the behavior? In the form 
>> itself would seem to be easiest, but that would also end up making it 
>> effectively optional, as any malicious/mischievous user could override it 
>> and it thus couldn't be relied upon.
>>
>>>> And I'd say it to be catalog specific, not global interchange directive.
>>> Make it global and let individual catalogues override the default.
>> Similar question here. So imagine we set a global Filter directive. How 
>> would the catalog override it? Perhaps a pseudo-filter reserved name 
>> "none"?
>>
>> In any case I think a catalog directive makes more sense. This kind of 
>> thing is exactly what we normally do in catalog directives. Making it a 
>> default in the Standard demo would have the effect of applying it nearly 
>> everywhere, and I'm not sure what benefit a global directive would add.
> 
> I strongly disagree with having Filter be applied automatically. But
> it should not be too hard to create a NoFilterWildcard directive
> which would allow certain variables to not apply for wildcards.
> That would allow
> 
> 	NoFilterWildcard mv_searchspec
> 	Filter * strip
> 

Or:

Filter mv_searchspec none
Filter * strip

Regards
          Racke

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