[web2py] Re: How to get pound sign in url or work around it?

[Cliff]

Thanks, Jonathan.  I appreciate the hint.

For anyone interested, there are a few more things you have to do.
If you just add anchor='tabs-2' to URL(), it renders /bla/edit/
5#tabs-2.

Not an invalid request, but it doesn't get you to the anchor, either.

So do something like URL(bla, args=[request.args(0), ''],
anchor='tabs-2').
That renders bla/edit/5//#tabs-2.  Note the two slashes.  This works
but
only one time, even if you create an observer by using live().

A call to location.reload() fixes that problem.

Here is the complete function.  It is kind of slow.
$('#clickme').live('click', function(){
            alert('hi');  // make sure we are firing on click
           window.location.href = "{{=URL('edit',
anchor='tabs-2',args=[str(request.args(0))])}}";
           location.reload;
        });

On Mar 21, 4:04 pm, Jonathan Lundell <jlund...@pobox.com> wrote:
> On Mar 21, 2012, at 12:49 PM, Cliff wrote:
>
>
>
> > Here is a snippet of javascript code:
> > window.location.href = "{{=URL('edit', args=[request.args(0),
> > '#tabs-2'])}}";
>
> > Notice the '#' in the args list.
>
> > URL persists in rendering the '#' as %23, which causes Web2py to throw
> > an 'Invalid Request' page.
>
> > I have tried using XML to preserve the pound sign, but to no avail.
>
> > How can I work around this?
>
> Try adding the argument anchor='tabs-2' to URL().