On Jun 2, 2012, at 5:55 PM, Ricardo Pedroso wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jun 2, 2012 at 4:08 PM, Bruce Wade <[email protected]> wrote:
>> Yeah that fixed that one problem
>>
>> I found IF there is a space in the file name it will not work, and if it
>> doesn't use ascii characters as LighDot said it wont work. Do you know which
>> part of web2py code handles this or if it is possible to make it work with
>> Chinese Characters?
>>
>
> It's in gluon/rewrite.py the following regex:
>
> regex_static = re.compile(r'''
> (^ # static pages
> /(?P<b> \w+) # b=app
> /static # /b/static
> /(?P<x> (\w[\-\=\./]?)* ) # x=file <--- HERE
> $)
> ''', re.X)
>
> If you change the line marked with "HERE" to:
> /(?P<x> (.*) ) # x=file
>
> it should work. Be aware that could be some implications with this
> change, I'm not a regex expert.
FWIW, the parametric router lets you override the regex pattern that's used for
path validation. The default pattern is:
file_match = r'(\w+[-=./]?)+$', # legal file (path) name
