Oh geez, I just had a typo in my regexp.  I guess it does work how I
was suggesting.  Thanks for considering that use case!

Cheers,
Brian


On Jun 6, 9:53 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
> yes. If you give us an example of the URL we can show you the proper
> routes.py file.
>
> Massimo
>
> On Jun 6, 7:57 pm, Brian Maddy <br...@brianmaddy.com> wrote:
>
> > Hello,
>
> > From what I understand, web2py doesn't allow certain special
> > characters in incoming urls because it's a possible security issue
> > (found here:http://ru.ly/F8).  I need to accept parentheses in my
> > application and I really don't want to have to maintain a slightly
> > different fork of web2py.
>
> > Would it be reasonable to apply the routes.py file before that security 
> > check?
>
> > This way, developers could still accept urls with certain special
> > characters, but would have to do it explicitly.  This would force them
> > to consider the security implications.
>
> > Thoughts?
>
> > Brian
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