Filter/Search-string by URL

[GralfR]

Feature Request

be able to have a direct url link to a search-result/filter inside graph view/tree view.

Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe

I updated from cacti 0.8.8 to 1.2.15. In 0.8.8 inside graph view using the filter/search on a device shown inside the tree-view I got all the graphs of the device shown, which the search-engine found. This is working on 1.2.15, too. But on 0.8.8 I saw the URL changing and including the search-string. So, inside my browser I was able to bookmark or copy that URL and e.g. send/show my search-result to a colleague and talk about it later. In 1.2.15 this does not work anymore, because the filter/search-string seams to be stored inside the session, not inside the URL anymore. After a lot of googling I read about a security-issue with the filter-parameter, which seams to be the reason, why this feature has been removed.

Describe the solution you'd like

Because we are using cacti on an internal network without connection to the internet, we do not have to worry a lot about security/hacking. If it is easy to just re-enable that URL-filter-parameter (maybe by user-settings including a warning) this would be okay for us.

Describe alternatives you've considered

If this is not possible, we need something like a "permanent link" to a filtered graph view, which should be able to guess by an external script. We would like to be able to get to a view of all the graphs of port 20 e.g. of a switch by just one URL link from a cacti-external site (inside the same network, not from outsite from the internet). But that URL should be that clear, that it only differs by the search-string from e.g. all graphs for port 24 of the same switch, because otherwise it would be hard to recode hundreds of links for hundreds of ports on a lot of switches, you know?

I've also searched the web for a plugin, which could do the job of creating a permanet link for my search-result, but didn't find a lot of plugins concerning links or filters. None of them would do the job, or did I miss something?

Additional context

Thanks

[netniV]

I think your summary is correct. There is currently no way to get the search as part of the address bar url.

[TheWitness]

It's really a regression. I've been noticing myself.

[TheWitness]

This should be resolved now.