RE: [Zope] Invalid Characters for a URL?

[Edward Pollard]

I'm porting some data to a Zope environment, and it is critical that URL's remain the same.

However, Zope does not allow plus signs (+) in URL's. It tries to pass it off that plus is an invalid character for a URL. However, plus is a perfectly valid character for a URL (ref: http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt).

So, why is Zope doing this, and much more importantly what does Zope think ARE valid characters for a URL?

It is only a convention that a "+" represents a space - it is not in the RFC. The correct thing to do is to encode the space with %20. Zope shoulddecode that all right. Cheers, Tom P