On Mar 21, 12:51 am, weheh <[email protected]> wrote:
> 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.
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> On Mar 20, 10:54 pm, Anthony <[email protected]> wrote:
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> > 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.
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> > Anthony
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> > On Tuesday, March 20, 2012 10:40:18 AM UTC-4, weheh wrote:
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> > > 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:
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> > > IMG(_src='myapp/static/images.load/...')
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> > > 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).
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> > > Anyway, I backtracked and decided to just .replace('.load','') on the
> > > URL(), even though that seems awfully ugly.
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> > > 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.
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> > > On Mar 20, 10:28 pm, Jonathan Lundell <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > > On Mar 20, 2012, at 6:54 AM, weheh wrote:
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> > > > > 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.
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> > > > Can't you use '/'? Or translate to '/'?
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> > > > > 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.
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> > > > >> During page load, request.folder has the proper "/" marks, as in:
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> > > > >> N:/web2py/applications/myapp
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> > > > >> but later, during a callback script, the "/" marks have been
> > > stripped,
> > > > >> as in:
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> > > > >> N:web2pyapplicationsmyapp
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> > > > >> In between, I can't find anywhere that I touched it.
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> > > > >> Anyone have any thoughts about what could possibly be causing that?
