[web2py] Re: request.args inconsistent behaviour and ignoring URI valid characters

2011-09-06 Thread Massimo Di Pierro
Exactly! This is an importent security feature. On Sep 5, 9:39 pm, pbreit wrote: > It's hard to say exactly what is allowed but according to my reading > ofhttp://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986* is definitely not allowed and . and .. > may not be allowed in the path (since they have meaning in a f

[web2py] Re: request.args inconsistent behaviour and ignoring URI valid characters

2011-09-05 Thread Noel Villamor
I see. So that explains the backtracking when two dots are in the URL (similar behaviour to cd .. at the command line).