On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 6:32 AM, Jorge Vargas <[email protected]> wrote: > > On Mon, May 11, 2009 at 3:16 PM, Ali Sabil <[email protected]> wrote: >> >> Hi all, >> >> Today I have been bitten by a rather unexpected behaviour from >> Turbogears 2 with the following code: >> >> class UserController(BaseController): >> �...@expose('foo.templates.user') >> def default(self, user, **kwargs): >> print user >> return dict() >> >> >> This controller works like a charm for this request: /user/ali.sabil >> But produces a rather confusing result for /user/john.man >> >> The problem comes from the fact that .man is a known filename >> extension for a known mimetype, which leads the TG2 >> ObjectDispatchController to chop the extension off, and have user=john >> in the controller. >> >> I understand that this behaviour can be very useful in many scenarios, >> but I think TG2 should provide a simple way to disable it completely. >> > That is a totally unexpected side effect. > > I think we should upgrade the internal code to only serve the > mimetypes from a restricted list. Instead of depeding on the mimetypes > module which does some weird stuff. > > At this point that is a bug that can't be turned off as it assumes > foo.something is a call to the mimetypes system. I guess we could add > a flag to turn it off. Could you open a ticket for this? > Done: http://trac.turbogears.org/ticket/2322
Thanks for your help, -- Ali >> Cheers, >> >> -- >> Ali >> >> > >> > > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TurboGears Trunk" 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/turbogears-trunk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
