you can now search for '*' to get just ALL entries in the search index

as result list. This makes sense if you intend to search just by using
the navigation tools to cut the data set into navigation 'slices'.

htroot/yacysearch.java

@@ -115,7 +115,7 @@ public class yacysearch {
         
         // get query
         final String originalquerystring = (post == null) ? "" : post.get("query", post.get("search", "")).trim();
-        String querystring = originalquerystring.replace('+', ' ').replace('*', ' ').trim();
+        String querystring = originalquerystring.replace('+', ' ').trim();
         CacheStrategy snippetFetchStrategy = (post == null) ? null : CacheStrategy.parse(post.get("verify", "cacheonly"));
         if (authenticated && originalquerystring.length() == 0) sb.index.fulltext().commit();
         
@@ -356,6 +356,9 @@ public class yacysearch {
             final RankingProfile ranking = sb.getRanking();
             final StringBuilder modifier = new StringBuilder(20);
 
+            if ("*".equals(querystring)) {
+                querystring = Segment.catchallString;
+            }
             if ( querystring.indexOf("/near", 0) >= 0 ) {
                 querystring = querystring.replace("/near", "");
                 ranking.allZero(); // switch off all attributes