[ZCM] [ZC] 1173/ 1 Request "ids should allow all characters vaild in a URL"

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Issue #1173 Update (Request) "ids should allow all characters vaild in a URL"
 Status Pending, Zope/bug medium
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= Request - Entry #1 by janwilhelm on Jan 11, 2004 4:52 pm

Zope does not allow me to create an object with an id such as "a%20simple%20test". Ironically, it gives me the message::

  Error Type: Bad Request
  Error Value: The id "a%20simple%20test" contains characters illegal in URLs.

However, "a%20simple%20test" is perfectly valid as part of a URL. By using an oversimplified and too strict test in OFS/ObjectManager (regexp bad_id), Zope wastes the possibility of using url_quote to create valid, unique, readable ids from arbitrary strings using the standard method.

bad_id should be modified to only eliminate strings that are really illegal as part of an URL.

Thanks,

Jan

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