Bug with URL encoding?

[Francisco Ribeiro]

Hi,

I have found that when I do request.args(), colons ':' even when properly URL encoded become an underscore '_' .

def echo():
    print request.args(0)
    return dict()

A request http://.../echo/%a_ will become :

__ 

which prevents me from distinguishing one from another.

Am I missing something? shouldn't request.args() take care of URL encoding / decoding for me?

Thank you

Kind regards,

Francisco Ribeiro

[Anthony]

By default, characters in args that do not match the '[^\w/.@=-]' regular expression are replaced with underscores. To override that behavior, there are two options:

1. In routes.py, set routes_apps_raw to a list of applications that will handle their own args parsing. In those apps, the entire args part of the URL (everything in path_info after /app/controller/function) will be available in request.raw_args, and you will have to parse it yourself.
2. Use the parameter-based rewrite system and specify args_match to suit your needs (the default args_match regex is '([\w@ =-]|(?<=[\w@ -])[.])*$'.
   

Anthony

[Francisco Ribeiro]

Thank you!