On 27 Mar 2013, at 2:57 PM, Derek <sp1d...@gmail.com> wrote: > It should be checking against RFC 3986, not RFC 2396.
Yes, it should be updated. > > On Wednesday, March 27, 2013 11:44:08 AM UTC-7, Jonathan Lundell wrote: > On 27 Mar 2013, at 11:25 AM, Lamps902 <dhea...@gmail.com> wrote: >> It seems that every once in a while, the IS_URL validator doesn't want to >> accept a URL that's valid. For example, I believe the ^ character prevents >> IS_URL from accepting something like >> http://finance.yahoo.com/q/hp?s=^IXIC+Historical+Prices. Is there a >> parameter to permit IS_URL to accept certain special characters, or that >> makes the validator 'less strict', so that it can accept URLs such as the >> one above? Thanks. >> >> > > IS_URL first checks the URL against RFC 2396, which requires '^' to be > escaped. I don't see a way to override it; better to URL-escape your URLs. > > -- --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "web2py-users" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to web2py+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/groups/opt_out.
