[Zope] File objects with illegal characters

Jens Vagelpohl jens at dataflake.org
Mon Aug 29 13:51:54 EDT 2005


On 29 Aug 2005, at 18:39, Dieter Maurer wrote:

> Jens Vagelpohl wrote at 2005-8-29 16:17 +0100:
>
>> ...
>> If a filename is illegal as a URL then that's that.
>>
>
> In fact, an URL does not disallow any characters.
> It only requires that some of them need to be escaped.
>
> Thus, a Zope id could contain any character, would Zope properly
> escape all characters not literally allowed in URLs.

Yes, that's always a viable solution. But as you said, it might  
require patching deep in the bowels of Zope to get that right. Or at  
the application level which could escape everything before it even  
hits the Zope level.

jens



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