I am trying to do the following in a RESTful manner: I have a web service that accepts an id to deliver a particular record. Unfortunately, the id that the client will have is not the usual database sequence number. This mostly works, though, and the url looks something like:
http://myservice.com/controller/the_id.xml That is handled by the "show" action. Unfortunately, some of the ids that will be passed contain special characters. I can require that they be encrypted, but the period seems to be having a problem. In other words, if the id is "the+id. value", the url should be: http://myservice.com/controller/the%2bid%2e+value.xml where the plus, period and space are transformed. This works for the plus and space, but the period causes the rest of url to be considered the "format" parameter. Actually, mostly. I've tried on two different servers, running the same version of rails. One accepts the above url and one doesn't. I've tried to figure out what is different about the servers. Could this be caused by an Apache configuration difference? Or a Passenger difference? I could use a hint about where the transformation of the %2e to period takes place. --- Alternately, what do you do in this situation? It would be trivial to do this non-RESTfully, by making a custom route, but I was attempting to be completely RESTful in my web service. Am I just making it hard on myself? -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected]. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected]. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en.
