It should be checking against RFC 3986, not RFC 2396. On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 11:44:08 AM UTC-7, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > > On 27 Mar 2013, at 11:25 AM, Lamps902 <[email protected] <javascript:>> > 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<http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=%5EIXIC+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. >
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