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 --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py Web Framework" group. To post to this group, send email to web2py@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/web2py?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---