Redmine query?

I was hoping to use a query in the Redmine task integration but can't ceem to get it working. .  I tried appending /issues?query_id=24 to the end of the project name in the server configuration and clicked test. .the URl displayed it exactly what i use in my broswer but the test just hangs and eventually throws an error.   is there a way to limit the issues returned from Redmine?      There are a boatload of them without my name assigned to them that i'd like to ignore when hitting "control space" in the create a new task dialog.    99% of the tasks shown are not mine and usually the one I want to work on isn't on the list (I guess the list is a shorted set somehow)

thanks!!
gary