[Web-SIG] URL quoting in WSGI (or the lack therof)

Ian Bicking ianb at colorstudy.com
Thu Jan 24 20:54:34 CET 2008


Brian Smith wrote:
> Ian Bicking wrote:
> 
>> We encountered it with GData too, as it uses URLs like 
>> /{http:%2f%2fexample.com}term/.  But if you balance the {}'s 
>> you can parse it out.
> 
> Unquoted curly braces are illegal in any kind of URI or IRI. Does GData
> really require them to be unquoted?

No, quoted is fine.  Of course parsing PATH_INFO I couldn't tell anyway ;)

   Ian


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