On 26 Jul 2012, at 8:50 PM, Mark Li <[email protected]> wrote: > I have a static file named
> > person---dog-3.jpg > > When I try to access the file through > http://127.0.0.1:8000/myapp/static/pets/person---dog-3.jpg > I get an "invalid request" error. > > However, if I rename the file to person-dog-3.jpg, it works fine. > I have a very large number of files named this way (with consecutive > hyphens), and it worked fine on other sites, just not working for web2py. Any > idea how I can make this work without renaming all the files? It's a legacy web2py thing. If you use the parametric router, you can redefine the relevant regex in your app's router, changing file_match = r'(\w+[-=./]?)+$', # legal file (path) name to file_match = r'([-=\w]+[./]?)+$', # legal file (path) name or something like it. --
