On Nov 2, 2:04 pm, Kenneth Gonsalves <law...@au-kbc.org> wrote:
> On Monday 02 Nov 2009 8:14:22 am Mike Ramirez wrote:> > hi,
> > > when I switched from apache to nginx, I found that all my spaces in urls
> > > were being replaced with '%20' which caused the urls to fail and
> > > database lookup also to fail. I used urllib.unquote in views and a \S in
> > > urls to work around this. Is there some cleaner solution to this?
>
> > maybe if you can change the spaces to hyphens? I really do think hypens
> > or underscores should be used in urls instead of spaces, which is why I
> > love slug fields for urls.
>
> these are usually user generated - they love to put spaces. I can handle
> spaces, but would like to know how the spaces become %20 and how to prevent
> this.
As someone else pointed out, likely from the browser.
The issue is that your web server is supposed to decode % escapes when
supplying parameters to CGI like request environment. Thus an
application would expect to see:
PATH_INFO: '/sadfaskf sadfasdf'
QUERY_STRING: ''
REQUEST_URI: '/echo.wsgi/sadfaskf%20sadfasdf'
SCRIPT_NAME: '/echo.wsgi'
Note how it is decoded in PATH_INFO.
If your web server of choice and means of hosting applications in
conjunction with it isn't doing it, then that hosting stack,
underneath Django, is arguably broken.
It should be really easy to verify whether the hosting stack is doing
something wrong. If using WSGI at application interface level then you
can use simple WSGI test program below to echo back what the WSGI
application is getting. This takes Django completely out of the
picture.
import cStringIO
import os
def application(environ, start_response):
headers = []
headers.append(('Content-Type', 'text/plain'))
write = start_response('200 OK', headers)
input = environ['wsgi.input']
output = cStringIO.StringIO()
print >> output, "PID: %s" % os.getpid()
print >> output
keys = environ.keys()
keys.sort()
for key in keys:
print >> output, '%s: %s' % (key, repr(environ[key]))
print >> output
output.write(input.read(int(environ.get('CONTENT_LENGTH', '0'))))
return [output.getvalue()]
Graham
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