&time replaced by × in url

[Gael Princivalle]

Hello.

When I build this URL:

url = URL('/maps/api/timezone/json', scheme='https', host='maps.googleapis.com', vars=dict(key='mykey', location=str(events_latitude) + ',' + str(events_longitude), timestamp=str(today_UTC_timestamp)))

"&times" is replaced by "×":

https://maps.googleapis.com/mtbconnection/f_ajax/maps/api/timezone/json?key=mykey&location=45.4%2C7.41×tamp=1474291274.04

For location & is ok.

I've tried also to concatenate strings, using ascii with chr(38), the result is the same.

Someones have a solution?

Thanks.

[Niphlod]

what version are you using ? can you try starting a shell and doing this ?

>>> URL(vars=dict(loc='foo', timestamp='bar'))

my output is 

'/welcome/default/index?loc=foo&timestamp=bar'

[Anthony]

Where/how are you using the resulting url variable. It looks like you are displaying it (unescaped) directly as HTML, in which case, "&times" is treated as the HTML entity name for the multiplication sign. It should work if you just let web2py escape it, though we may need to see more code.

See http://stackoverflow.com/questions/16834320/using-times-word-in-html-changes-to-%C3%97.

Anthony

[Gael Princivalle]

Thank you all.

Yes Anthony I was testing the url returning it from a function and displaying it directly from the function url in the browser.

URL is correct, sorry for that.