David C. Kankiewicz writes:

"Jay, Dylan" wrote:

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As I said, when the url is quoted there is no problem.

http://azonia.auslabs.lucent.com/Auslabs/AuslabsFAQ/Where%20is%20X%3f

causes no problems. The above object is sitting happily inside Zope with a question mark at the end. I had to let the bad_id check let it pass but is there any reason why it shouldn't?

bad_id=ts_regex.compile('[^a-zA-Z0-9-_~\,\. ]').search #TS

The .search was .match Changing it back restores the behavior, who changed it and why is the question?

I can't find any reason why, atleast not right now. Maybe I need more sleep :), didn't remember the URL quoting stuff... '?' is bad because it requires you to quote all names you are going to use as parts of URL's. Non-ASCII characters, too, are rightfully forbidden:

a collegue used a 'ä' in an id. Worked fine for browsers on Windows and Linux but broke for browsers on a Mac's. Dieter