On Mon, May 4, 2009 at 11:20 AM, mdipierro <[email protected]> wrote:
> Out 17 and 19 would not work (unless you use routes.py)  because URL
> is validated and @ is not allowed, not even encoded. It is a security
> measure.

What it prevents?

> On May 4, 2:25 am, Yarko Tymciurak <[email protected]> wrote:
>> If you look at URL, you will see that args and vars are urllib.quote()-ed.
>>
>> In general, you do not want to undo this;  but if your controller checks for
>> email, you can see the effects, e.g.:
>>
>> In [17]: URL(r=request, f='mailme', args='[email protected]')
>> Out[17]: '/welcome/default/mailme/manny%40jack.moe'
>>
>> In [18]: URL(r=request, f='mailme', vars=dict(email='[email protected]'))
>> Out[18]: '/welcome/default/mailme?email=manny%40jack.moe'
>>
>> In [19]: urllib.unquote(URL(r=request, f='mailme', args='[email protected]'))
>> Out[19]: '/welcome/default/mailme/[email protected]'
>>
>> In [20]: urllib.unquote(URL(r=request, f='mailme',
>> vars=dict(email='[email protected]
>> oe')))
>> Out[20]: '/welcome/default/[email protected]'
>>
>> But since you are only concerned with the string mapping of '%40' to '@',
>> you can do that more directly (and it would be safer than a general url
>> unquote()).
>>
>> -Yarko
> >
>



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