[Rails] Re: '[' and ']' characters are not valid characters of a URI query component.

2009-04-10 Thread bbsuj
The RFC 3986, warns about these "[","]" characters, but leaves it up to the implementor. Firefox, IE and Safari browsers support these characters. http://tools.ietf.org/html/rfc3986 "Special care should be taken when the URI path interpretation process involves the use of a back-end file syste

[Rails] Re: '[' and ']' characters are not valid characters of a URI query component.

2009-04-10 Thread Marnen Laibow-Koser
Phlip wrote: [...] > An "URI" is an URL. Rails packs records into them like this: > > .../controller/action?record[first_name]=norbert&record[last_name]=theNark I don't use GET with [] very often in Rails, but when I have done so, I have noticed that the [] are always URL-encoded as %xx (don'

[Rails] Re: '[' and ']' characters are not valid characters of a URI query component.

2009-04-10 Thread Phlip
Brandon Olivares wrote: > Just wondering why you are taking out the "_"? Some commie or terr'ist somewhere has a browser that replaced peace_freedom with peaceUS95freedom. That _might_ have been caused by the accidental us-ascii encoding on the page - 95 is the ASCII code point for _ - but it

[Rails] Re: '[' and ']' characters are not valid characters of a URI query component.

2009-04-09 Thread Brandon Olivares
ups.com > Subject: [Rails] Re: '[' and ']' characters are not valid characters of > a URI query component. > > > > I copied it out of the top of a WikiPedia page, so it doubtless has > had the crap > > reviewed out of it... > > Also, we are natur

[Rails] Re: '[' and ']' characters are not valid characters of a URI query component.

2009-04-09 Thread Phlip
> I copied it out of the top of a WikiPedia page, so it doubtless has had the > crap > reviewed out of it... Also, we are naturally flattening our forms to not use [] in this context. We will also take out all the _, but that might just be collateral damage. --~--~-~--~~-

[Rails] Re: '[' and ']' characters are not valid characters of a URI query component.

2009-04-09 Thread Phlip
Philip Hallstrom wrote: > Don't know for sure, but I know that in the late 90's PHP used [] for > this exact same thing. Still does I would assume. So if it's browser > forgiveness it's something that has been going on since at least 1996. As a shotgun attack, we upgraded our HTML headers

[Rails] Re: '[' and ']' characters are not valid characters of a URI query component.

2009-04-09 Thread Philip Hallstrom
>>> The question comes up because - despite Rails's joyful abuse of >>> those >>> characters to delimit records > >> ??? > > An "URI" is an URL. Rails packs records into them like this: > > .../controller/action? > record[first_name]=norbert&record[last_name]=theNark > > The params method unra

[Rails] Re: '[' and ']' characters are not valid characters of a URI query component.

2009-04-09 Thread Phlip
Fernando Perez wrote: >> The question comes up because - despite Rails's joyful abuse of those >> characters to delimit records > ??? An "URI" is an URL. Rails packs records into them like this: .../controller/action?record[first_name]=norbert&record[last_name]=theNark The params method un

[Rails] Re: '[' and ']' characters are not valid characters of a URI query component.

2009-04-09 Thread Fernando Perez
> The question comes up because - despite Rails's joyful abuse of those > characters to delimit records ??? -- Posted via http://www.ruby-forum.com/. --~--~-~--~~~---~--~~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: