> Awesome, thank you. So as far as escaping user-entered data for use
> in URLs...urlencode is best?
I'd say so. I haven't really found a need for iriencode personally,
and from the code, it seems that urlencode does everything iriencode
does anyway.
> On Sep 4, 8:45 pm, Sam Lai <samuel....@gmail.com> wrote:
>> Here's the code for the two (the numbers at the start of each line are
>> just line numbers from the file) -
>>
>> iriencode:
>> 128 """
>> 129 Convert an Internationalized Resource Identifier (IRI) portion to a URI
>> 130 portion that is suitable for inclusion in a URL.
>> 131
>> 132 This is the algorithm from section 3.1 of RFC 3987. However,
>> since we are
>> 133 assuming input is either UTF-8 or unicode already, we can
>> simplify things a
>> 134 little from the full method.
>> 135
>> 136 Returns an ASCII string containing the encoded result.
>> 137 """
>> 138 # The list of safe characters here is constructed from the
>> "reserved" and
>> 139 # "unreserved" characters specified in sections 2.2 and 2.3 of
>> RFC 3986:
>> 140 # reserved = gen-delims / sub-delims
>> 141 # gen-delims = ":" / "/" / "?" / "#" / "[" / "]" / "@"
>> 142 # sub-delims = "!" / "$" / "&" / "'" / "(" / ")"
>> 143 # / "*" / "+" / "," / ";" / "="
>> 144 # unreserved = ALPHA / DIGIT / "-" / "." / "_" / "~"
>> 145 # Of the unreserved characters, urllib.quote already considers all but
>> 146 # the ~ safe.
>> 147 # The % character is also added to the list of safe characters
>> here, as the
>> 148 # end of section 3.1 of RFC 3987 specifically mentions that %
>> must not be
>> 149 # converted.
>> 150 if iri is None:
>> 151 return iri
>> 152 return urllib.quote(smart_str(iri), safe="/#%[]=:;$&()+,!?*@'~")
>>
>> urlencode:
>> 11 """
>> 12 A version of Python's urllib.quote() function that can operate
>> on unicode
>> 13 strings. The url is first UTF-8 encoded before quoting. The
>> returned string
>> 14 can safely be used as part of an argument to a subsequent
>> iri_to_uri() call
>> 15 without double-quoting occurring.
>> 16 """
>> 17 return force_unicode(urllib.quote(smart_str(url), safe='/'))
>>
>> So iriencode only encodes the IRI portion (hence the longer list of
>> safe characters), while URL will encode the entire URL, including any
>> GET arguments and anchors.
>>
>> As for usage, I haven't encountered any IRIs, but I believe IRIs need
>> to be encoded before inclusion in HTML (i.e. you can't just include
>> the non-ASCII characters in HTML). As for urlencode, its main purpose
>> is if you're including a URL in a form submission, e.g. the URL to go
>> to after login. urlencode will do everything that iriencode does, but
>> sometimes you might not want it to do that.
>>
>> On 5 September 2010 08:17, Jordon Wii <jordon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>>
>> > Anyone? I haven't found anything that describes the difference
>> > (except that one is for URI's and the other for URLs).
>>
>> > On Sep 4, 8:52 am, Jordon Wii <jordon...@gmail.com> wrote:
>> >> What's the difference between the template filters urlencode and
>> >> iriencode? When should I use one over the other (or use both)?
>>
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