extmsg: fall back to partial Message-ID matching

In case a URL gets truncated (as is common with long URLs),
we can rely on Xapian for partial matches and bring the user
to their destination.

1 files changed, 1 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm b/lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm
index 2718854c..8f155063 100644
--- a/lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm
+++ b/lib/PublicInbox/WWW.pm
@@ -79,6 +79,7 @@ sub r404 {
         my ($ctx) = @_;
         if ($ctx && $ctx->{mid}) {
                 require PublicInbox::ExtMsg;
+                searcher($ctx);
                 return PublicInbox::ExtMsg::ext_msg($ctx);
         }
         r(404, 'Not Found');