Thanks for the suggestions. I decided to just go the easy way and have that one entry point not be RESTful. It will look like:
http://myservice.com/controller/get?uri=XXXX and: http://myservice.com/controller/get.xml?uri=XXXX On Mon, May 23, 2011 at 5:53 PM, Philip Hallstrom <[email protected]> wrote: >>> I am trying to do the following in a RESTful manner: >>> >>> http://myservice.com/controller/the%2bid%2e+value.xml >>> >>> the period causes the rest of url to be considered >>> the "format" parameter. >> >> Can you change your route, rather than >> controller/id.format >> can you have: >> controller/id/format >> This way it wouldn't matter if there are full stops in the id >> (although slashes may become a problem :-) > > Or tell Rails periods are okay... using a regex... something like... > > :requirements => { :id => %r([\w.]+) } > -- 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.
