Actually, I don't think url_quote_plus is what you want. I think rather you need to come up with a DTML method that replaces spaces with plus signs only. You don't want to URL-quote the whole url, because when doing so, you replace colons with %3a's, etc. You don't need to do this to pass this to a redirect, and as a matter of fact it won't work at all. Here's a DTRL method 'my_space_replacer' that does that: <dtml-var "_.string.replace(unquoted_url, ' ', '+')" > And here's a method that calls it: <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('unquoted_url', 'http://www.zope.org/Howdy there')"> <dtml-call "REQUEST.set('quoted_url', my_space_replacer(_.None, REQUEST))"> <dtml-call "RESPONSE.redirect(quoted_url)">

-----Original Message----- From: Nbk [mailto:nbk@cyberdude.com] Sent: Friday, April 28, 2000 6:42 AM To: zope@zope.org Subject: [Zope] A nice problem with url_quote_plus

Hi.

I have the folowing code in one of my DTML method's:

<dtml-call "RESPONSE.redirect(_.string.join([url,query],''))">

'url' and 'query' are two variables passed by the REQUEST.  This work's just fine, but with some minor :-) problems in my case. If i have a 'query' with some spaces, the RESPONSE.redirect causes an obvious http error. So, i  want to replace some  characters of my 'query' variable. And guess what? <dtml-var  url url_quote_plus>  gives me the right string. How do i do an "quote_plus" ( like  in python urllib module ) in Zope, without using an External Method?

BTW, i've used an python method, but with no luck ( i can't make a  simple "import urllib").

TIA,

@886, Nbk ( Just believe, Zope source code is the best place  to find up-to-date documentation! )

P.S. - I've looked up for the solution in www.google.com, www.egroups.com, lists.zope.org, www.zope.org, www.python.org, and some other resources.  I had find some interesting ideas, but none of them are usefull to this problem. :-)

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