I don't think web2py will accept special characters in args (for security reasons). You could move it to a var in the query string. Anthony
On Thursday, August 18, 2011 9:09:23 AM UTC-4, peter wrote: > > If one enters a url for web2py > > .../welcome/default/index/a%20b > > then the URL works fine (%20 is an encoded space) > > If one puts > > .../welcome/default/index/a%27b > > then one gets an 'Invalid request'. The %27 is an encoded apostrophe. > > So web2y is not liking this encoded apostrophe in what it sees as the > first argument. Why does it not like %27 and is there anything simple > way round this? > > Peter > > >

