The answer was to pass the data as JSON in an ajax call rather than add parameters to an URL.
On Thursday, 6 June 2013 16:37:05 UTC+1, Carl wrote: > > I've a browser app that calls a Web2py server app; it builds up URLs to > pass data. > > Some of that data might be from an end-user and if that data contains a > semi-colon it "breaks" web2py's parsing of the URL into args and vars > (specifically it breaks the vars parsing) > > Q1. Any suggestions of the best approach to working around this? > I'm already escape user input. The only solution I can think of is to > parse out the semi-colons from the user content before calling the Web2py > server. > > Q2. Are there other characters in an URL that can break web2py? > > Bcakground: Web2py is running on GAE. > -- --- 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.
