I was going over Web2Py code, and I noticed that the allowable URLs are a bit narrow.
As a reference for URL handling, I am using RFC 3986: http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 which is has a summary at Wikipedia here: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Percent-encoding The default allowable URLs are nearly equivalent to the RFC 3986 unreserved characters with the exception of the tilde. I think it would be reasonable to allow for its inclusion as an argument. Another addition would be the inclusion of parenthesis which is used in some websites such as Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cell_(biology) Parenthesis are currently listed as "reserved characters" but so far there hasn't been any reservations for them. We might try to investigate which other characters could be allowed into Web2Py urls, but for now here is the patch that allows for tildes and parenthesis. --- C:\temp\main.py-revBASE.svn000.tmp.py Wed Jul 29 00:23:10 2009 +++ C:\web2py\gluon\main.py Wed Jul 29 00:21:10 2009 @@ -89,7 +89,7 @@ )? ( # (/s) /(?P<s> # /a/c/f.e/s=sub - ( [\w\-][\=\./]? )+ + ( [\w\-~\(\)][\=\./]? )+ ) )? )? --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" 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 -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
