Antoine Pitrou <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> added the comment: Le mercredi 13 août 2008 à 17:05 +0000, Bill Janssen a écrit : > I think it's worth remembering that a very large proportion of the use > of Python's urllib.unquote() is in implementations of Web server > frameworks of one sort or another. We can't control what the browsers > that talk to such frameworks produce;
Yes, we do. Browsers will use whatever charset is specified in the HTML for the query part; and, as for the path part, they should't produce it themselves, they just follow a link which should already be percent-quoted in the HTML. (URL rewriting at the HTTP server level can make this more complicated, since it can turn a query fragment into a path fragment or vice-versa; however, most modern frameworks alleviate the need for such rewriting, since they allow to specify flexible mapping rules at the framework level) The situation in which we can't control the encoding is when getting the URLs from third-part content (e.g. some Web page which we didn't produce ourselves, or some link in an e-email). But in those cases there's less use cases for unquoting the URL rather than use it as-is. The only time I've wanted to unquote such an URL was to do some processing of HTTP referrers in order to extract which search queries had led people to visit a Web site. _______________________________________ Python tracker <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <http://bugs.python.org/issue3300> _______________________________________ _______________________________________________ Python-bugs-list mailing list Unsubscribe: http://mail.python.org/mailman/options/python-bugs-list/archive%40mail-archive.com
