Question

I have some problems with the URL dispatching. There’re my rules:

urlpatterns += patterns('proxy.views',
    (r'^$', 'proxyviews.index'),
    (r'^go/(?P<url>\S+)', 'proxyviews.go'),
    (r'^proxy/(\S+)$', 'proxyviews.proxy'),
)

If I give it the next URL: “http://myproxy.com/go/http://foo.bar” it will be “http://myproxy.com/go/http:/foo.bar” — with one slash after “go/http:”. I’m not sure what’s wrong here. Do you have any ideas? Thanks.

Answer 1

Actually in your url you are giving raw string so “\” means “\” only. For this to work better use url encode.

For eg instead of

http://myproxy.com/go/http://foo.bar

you should give url as

http://myproxy.com/go/http%3A%2F%2Ffoo.bar

Moreover you should also encode “%”, so better it be

http://myproxy.com/go/http%253A%252F%252Ffoo.bar

thanks