[QPID-7065] [Java Broker] Wrong RegEx prohibits HA VHNs with dash ("-") in host address

• Type: Bug
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Fixed
• Fix Version/s: qpid-java-6.0.1, qpid-java-6.1
• Component/s: Broker-J
• Assignee: Unassigned
• Reporter: Lorenz Quack
• Created: 15/Feb/16 10:46
• Updated: 15/Feb/16 11:48
• Resolved: 15/Feb/16 11:48

Description

Currently the regular expression governing the validity of the host address for HA VirtualHostNodes contains the following character class [0-9a-zA-Z.-_]
the intention of the last part is to allow dots, dashes, and underscores. However, it is interpreted as the ASCII range between the dot (2E) and underscore (5F) which includes things like \/[]<>^=? but not the dash (2D).

The relevant function nodeAddressOrContextVarRegexp() is in
broker-plugins/management-http/src/main/java/resources/js/qpid/common/util.js