[Zope-dev] Zope-Bug affecting my url_quoting (bug in getattr?)

[Jan-Oliver Wagner]

Hi Dieter, all,

>  > Manually using capital letters for the url quoting will work (ie. here
>  > just '%F5es' at the end of the above URL.
>  > 
>  > Apparantly the %f is substituted by someone by the filename
>  > (getattr already delivers this error).

On Tue, Aug 07, 2001 at 10:43:51PM +0200, Dieter Maurer wrote:
> I am sure, "getattr" returns the value that is in "REQUEST"
> without substituting "%f" -- it did when I tried to
> reproduce your problem!
> Maybe, you display "REQUEST" before mangling:
> 
>        <dtml-var REQUEST>
>        <dtml-var unquote>
>        <dtml-var REQUEST>

I found the problem, finally. 
Even a document as simple as
<dtml-var REQUEST>
showed the strange substitution and I thought it must
happen somewhere very deep.
It was very deep - actually the error is caused still
before Zope reveives the URL: In my web-server.

So this is for the archive:

If you are using Caudium (as I do) or Roxen Challenger
the redirect patterns are buggy. %f is substituted silently
there.
A bug-report is submitted to Caudium, the Roxen people
require registration for bug reports, so they will not
receive one.

> Why do you want to unquote anyway?
> Zope already did it for you! Dangerous to do it a second time!

Does it?
http://freegis.org/quote_test?my_var=%f5
shows no unquote in the REQUEST.

Jan
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