[Zope-dev] Re: Allowing @ in object ids

[Florent Guillaume]

Checked in for 2.8 and trunk:
http://svn.zope.org/Zope/?view=rev&rev=38738

Florent

Florent Guillaume wrote:
> Today @ is forbidden in object ids. That's controlled by the bad_id  
> regexp in OFS.ObjectManager, which tries to ensure that ids will be  
> useable as URL components.
> 
> However, there's no reason to disallow this, as the URL spec (http:// 
> www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc1738.txt) says:
> 
>    An HTTP URL takes the form:
>       http://<host>:<port>/<path>?<searchpart>
>    [...]
>    Within the <path> and <searchpart> components, "/", ";", "?" are
>    reserved.  The "/" character may be used within HTTP to designate a
>    hierarchical structure.
> 
> Note that somewhere else in the spec, it says that @ (and others) MAY  
> be reserved by some schemes, but HTTP doesn't actually make it reserved.
> 
> Furthermore, many projects have monkey-patched bad_id to allow @ and  
> see no ill-effects.
> Having @ in ids is very useful for various things, one of them being  to 
> have email-like identifiers (think jabber for instance). There are  
> other uses.
> 
> Unless there's opposition, I'll change the code to allow it.
> 
> Florent
> 


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