The URL() function automatically uses the extension of the current request
(i.e., request.extension) unless explicitly overridden or suppressed. You
can suppress the extension via URL(..., extension=False). See the very end
of this section in the
book: http://web2py.com/books/default/chapter/29/4#URL.
Anthony
On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:40:18 AM UTC-4, weheh wrote:
>
> I got into this pickle because I was using a URL(c='static',
> f='images', ...) to download an image under static/images. The problem
> was that the image download was taking place from a component, so a
> ".load" suffix was getting spliced into the middle of the path like
> this:
>
> IMG(_src='myapp/static/images.load/...')
>
> I figured I'd just get around the ".load" by building the path on my
> own using os.path.join(request.folder,'static/images/...') and that's
> when I saw that request.folder was getting stripped of its slashes (or
> backslashes ... I don't recall at this moment).
>
> Anyway, I backtracked and decided to just .replace('.load','') on the
> URL(), even though that seems awfully ugly.
>
> Bottom line, URL() is inserting a ".load" on the path during the ajax
> callback after doing a form submit. BUT there is NO ".load" in the
> same path when just loading the page the first time. I think this is
> inconsistent behavior, but I don't have the time to delve deeper into
> it at this time.
>
>
> On Mar 20, 10:28 pm, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > On Mar 20, 2012, at 6:54 AM, weheh wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > > Ah ... never mind. This seems to be a "\" quoting problem, but one
> > > I've never encountered before. It's biting me in an ajax callback
> > > routine. It looks like I may have to quote a bunch of "\"s and now I'm
> > > just trying to figure out how many I have to quote.
> >
> > Can't you use '/'? Or translate to '/'?
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
> > > On Mar 20, 9:41 pm, weheh <[email protected]> wrote:
> > >> I'm seeing an odd behavior ... request.folder has lost all the "/"
> > >> marks in the path.
> >
> > >> During page load, request.folder has the proper "/" marks, as in:
> >
> > >> N:/web2py/applications/myapp
> >
> > >> but later, during a callback script, the "/" marks have been
> stripped,
> > >> as in:
> >
> > >> N:web2pyapplicationsmyapp
> >
> > >> In between, I can't find anywhere that I touched it.
> >
> > >> Anyone have any thoughts about what could possibly be causing that?
