[Web-SIG] URL quoting in WSGI (or the lack therof)

[Ben Bangert]

I unfortunately couldn't find anything in the WSGI spec to indicate whether or not I could expect environ variables relating to the URL to be URL decoded when I get them or whether they reflect the raw URL that was sent to the browser.

Cheers,
Ben

This recently became an issue, when a user noticed that the %2B URL encoding for a + sign, had turned into a space when it hit their app. Sure enough, Paste was doing URL un-quoting, then Routes, and the double URL un-quote resulted in the + being a space. Is there some definitive word on whether a WSGI application should expect to have it URL un-quoted or not?

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