On Aug 14, 2010, at 6:10 AM, mdipierro wrote:
> On Aug 14, 5:55 am, Jurgis Pralgauskis <jurgis.pralgaus...@gmail.com>
> wrote:
>> On Aug 5, 3:41 pm, mdipierro <mdipie...@cs.depaul.edu> wrote:
>>
>>> the problem is not the escaping (which is correct, + must be escaped)
>>> the problem is thta web2py urls do not allow non-alphanumeric chars.
>>
>> but for arguments there seems to be no need for such restriction, or
>> is there?
>
> It is our policy that arguments should be alphanumeric. This is
> because they can be used to id records or access the file system and
> we do not worry you to have to worry about validating then. This does
> not mean you cannot have "c++" in a URL. It just means you must use
> routes to map an arg into a var.:
>
> routes_in =[('/app/c/f/$anything','/app/c/f/data=$anything')]
Down the road, I hope to introduce a URL validation & rewrite subsystem that
will allow the user a little more flexibility in this respect; the current
restriction doesn't make sense in all cases (or could be enforced more locally).
