#9586: Shall upload_to return an urlencoded string or not?
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Reporter: eibaan | Owner: nobody
Status: new | Milestone:
Component: File uploads/storage | Version: 1.0
Resolution: | Keywords:
Stage: Unreviewed | Has_patch: 0
Needs_docs: 0 | Needs_tests: 0
Needs_better_patch: 0 |
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Comment (by eibaan):
Analysis:
I checked {{{django.core.files.storage}}} and I think, my problem roots in
that {{{FileSystemStorage.url()}}} does not create URLs. This is the point
where the contract (or at least my expectation) is broken.
{{{urlparse.urljoin()}}} is expecting URL segments but a filename is
passed, that may contain spaces or other special characters that would
need to be escaped.
Futhermore, on non-windows platforms where \ is a valid (even if uncommon)
character, it is replaced with a slash so that a cleverly named file can
provide access to subfolders you might not want to be accessible.
I think, a better implementation would be this:
{{{
url = "/".join(map(urlquote, name.split(os.path.sep)))
return urlparse.urljoin(self.base_url, url)
}}}
I find it irritating that {{{Storage.save()}}} replaces \ with /, perhaps
as a poor man's attempt to make it an URL? Why not honor the operation
system's conventions here? If at all, this belongs IMHO into the
{{{FileSystemStorage}}} and not in the generic class.
The method {{{Storage.get_valid_name()}}} kills both \ and / even if other
methods assume/accept them. It also restricts the set of valid characters
to a-z, ignoring all other letters and removes spaces and other
punctuations. Removing all but 26 letters might be ok for western
countries (but even I need full unicode support) but I imagine it is
inacceptable for for example Russian or Greek speaking countries.
This method hides the problems with that other methods because it
restricts everything to a ASCII subset. If you create your own
{{{upload_to}}} method, you circumvent that method call and feed "real"
file names into that other methods which causes the described problems.
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