On 27 Aug 2012, at 7:30 AM, jc <[email protected]> wrote: > I want to shorten url's and use hyphens in my paths. I also want to get a 404 > if the user tries an invalid url. I have played with routes.py but the effect > I get is shorter url's (good), hyphens in url's translated to underscores in > function and view (good) , but all invalid url's route to the default a/c/f > (bad). So the user doesn't see they have used an invalid url, they just get > the home page. > > With this as my routes.py > > routers = dict( > BASE = dict( > default_application = 'app', > map_hyphen = 'True', > ), > app = dict( > default_controller = 'cc', > default_function = 'f1', > functions = ['f1', 'f2', ...], > ), > ) > > then > http://domain/ --> home page > http://domain/app --> home page > http://domain/app/cc --> home page etc. > http://domain/f2 --> f2 correctly > > But http://domain/bad-app-name --> home page too, which I don't want. > > Is this correct behaviour? How can I achieve my goal? >
It's correct behavior. In your example, the router interprets your example as http://domain/app/cc/f1/bad-app-name because it figures that 'bad-app-name' must be an arg (request.args[0]). You can avoid that by leaving out the functions= line. The downside of *that* will be that 'f1' will not be omitted if there really is an arg. --
