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I'm aware of the couple "searching for a wildcard tag gives you a blank page" bug reports here, but wanted to report that if you search for a wildcard tag, it now works, BUT if you try to add a second tag to that search, it fails miserably with a proper (non-blank) 400 error. This is particularly bad, given that you explicitly link to the pages that give the 400 error after a search for a wildcard tag.

To reproduce, merely click any of the "related tags" links below:


(and for some reason, the system won't auto-link that, and it thinks that my htmlifying of it means I'm posting two hyperlinks)

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Just ran into the same problem with... stackoverflow.com/questions/tagged/java~ Kind of surprised by Jeff Atwood's answer to this one. It's clearly broken, the application served the broken link. That seems strange to be "by design". –  delux247 Oct 15 '09 at 3:23
Yeah I agree. It's an incorrect design, however intentional it may or may not be. "It's a feature, not a bug!" –  Paul McMillan Oct 16 '09 at 6:04
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Url too long; this is by design. Delete some tags or be more narrow in your wildcards.

Did you seriously expect to put 50+ tags in the URL and have it work?

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No, but you shouldn't have created links that were to long (did you seriously expect to put 50+ tags in the URL and have it work?) –  deleted Aug 29 '09 at 20:05
Uh, yeah... this answer would make more sense if the system wasn't generating the broken URLs. –  Shog9 Aug 29 '09 at 21:11
users are generating broken wildcard searches. Python~ is too broad. –  Jeff Atwood Aug 30 '09 at 12:12
The system should then return a polite "be more specific" response. A broken link in the UI is NEVER ok if it was reached by using the UI as intended. –  Paul McMillan Aug 30 '09 at 14:50
The system returns 400 errors by design? That seems... technically incorrect at best... –  Gabriel Hurley Sep 11 '09 at 10:58
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