[Zope3-dev] Opera url parameter troubles

[Chris Withers]

Fred Drake wrote:
> 
> On Sat, 16 Feb 2002 17:36:15 -0600 (CST)
>  sean.bowman@acm.org wrote:
> > POST /RolePermissionsManagement;view/action/ HTTP/1.1
> 
> Until recently, Python's urlparse module got it wrong too.
> Using parameterization on path segments other than the last
> is probably poorly supported in general, simply because it
> hasn't been used a lot, so browser support for it has been
> poorly tested.
> 
> It doesn't help that the RFCs have changed over time, which
> only serves to complicate implementations.

To me, this reads as "this is bad, we shouldn't be generating URLs that have
parameters in anything but the last section"

What do other people think and how do we get around it?

cheers,

Chris