#19468: django doesn't encode request.path correctly in python3
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Reporter: aliva | Owner: nobody
Type: Bug | Status: new
Component: Python 3 | Version: master
Severity: Release blocker | Resolution:
Keywords: | Triage Stage: Accepted
Has patch: 1 | Needs documentation: 0
Needs tests: 0 | Patch needs improvement: 0
Easy pickings: 0 | UI/UX: 0
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Comment (by claudep):
I admit that due to an unfortunate missing standard in the past, URL
encoded with non-utf-8 encodings are possible and correct RFC-wise.
However, all modern browsers do encode the URLs with UTF-8, and that has
nothing to do with "nicely displaying" them. They really send
utf-8-encoded paths on the wire.
If wsgiref/PEP 3333 chooses to continue to "wrongly" (but safely) decoding
98% of URLs, it might be a design choice and it remains to be seen if it
is a problem or not. Backwards compatibility is also an issue here.
As far as Django is concerned, I do agree with your next steps. But I'm -1
to using DEFAULT_CHARSET for decoding URLs. Django has absolutely no
influence on the encoding of URL paths, that's the user agent's business.
So even when you decide you want to serve non UTF-8 responses by setting
DEFAULT_CHARSET, you still have no influence on the encoding of the paths
you are receiving from clients (also taking into account hand-written URLs
in browser address bars). In my opinion, these are orthogonal issues.
I have unfortunately not the public-facing infrastructure to run a Python
3 Django test instance, but it would be nice to have one such test project
to see how it goes, and what various user agents are sending to the server
with non-ascii URLs.
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