Question

Django escapes Twitter URLS in a way that Twitter doesn’t like:
for example http://twitter.com/#!/bugspy becomes http://twitter.com/#%21%2Fbugspy

And twitter won’t serve it.
How this can be fixed (without explicitly in the code replacing the %21%2F with !/) ?

Answer 1

What version of django are you using? In django 1.3 it works fine.

>>> from django.template.defaultfilters import urlize
>>> urlize('http://twitter.com/#!/bugspy')
u'<a href="http://twitter.com/#%21/bugspy" rel="nofollow">http://twitter.com/#!/bugspy</a> '

And this url work fine on twitter.
Also you can look at this snipept : http://djangosnippets.org/snippets/1445/