On 27 Mar 2013, at 11:25 AM, Lamps902 <[email protected]> wrote: > It seems that every once in a while, the IS_URL validator doesn't want to > accept a URL that's valid. For example, I believe the ^ character prevents > IS_URL from accepting something like > http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=^IXIC+Historical+Prices. Is there a parameter > to permit IS_URL to accept certain special characters, or that makes the > validator 'less strict', so that it can accept URLs such as the one above? > Thanks. > >
IS_URL first checks the URL against RFC 2396, which requires '^' to be escaped. I don't see a way to override it; better to URL-escape your URLs. -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
