[Zope] A nice problem with url_quote_plus

[Chris McDonough]

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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