[QA] Prefix search broken in beta

[Nikolas Everett]

On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 11:53 AM, Chad Horohoe <chorohoe at wikimedia.org>wrote:

> I hate TitleKey
>
> We should already halt TitleKey from doing its prefix matching
> since our hook returns false (and we *should* execute first).
>

We aren't first because we add the hook on request initialization now to
support betafetures.


>
> TitleKey does some other weird stuff too, I talked with Brion about
> it a few months ago.
>
> -Chad
>
>
> On Tue, Dec 17, 2013 at 8:40 AM, Nikolas Everett <neverett at wikimedia.org>wrote:
>
>> It looks like Beta is using the "TitleKey" extension.  That extension
>> registers itself to handle prefix searches and doesn't let cirrus take a
>> crack at performing the prefix searches.  Thus, folks are complaining that
>> prefix searching is broken in beta.
>>
>> It looks like the plugin is designed to provide case insensitive matching
>> for "go" and prefix searches.  Cirrus already does that for prefix
>> searches.  So maybe we could do the same for go matches?
>>
>> Nik
>>
>
>
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