Thanks, Anthony. It's been a long time since I read that piece of doc, so I'm not surprised to see my knowledge is a bit dated.
On Mar 20, 10:54 pm, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote: > 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?
