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rogwan
rogwan

Reputation: 197

How to display @ instead of being encoded as %40 (urlencode) in browser address bar?

I've tried to use this line in Python3 (Flask) project, which is UTF-8 encoding:

@app.route('/@<username>', methods=['GET', 'POST'])

But in browser address bar, it always displays like:

http://example.com/%40username

How to display the original '@' in browser address bar? thanks!

Upvotes: 2

Views: 1798

Answers (1)

Kevin
Kevin

Reputation: 931

Are you are using url_for from python code? One approach in such case is to call urllib.unquote on return value of url_for

Sample code:

from flask import Flask, url_for, redirect
import urllib
app = Flask(__name__)

@app.route("/")
def hello():
    return redirect(urllib.unquote(url_for('user', username='test')))

@app.route('/@<username>', methods=['GET', 'POST'])
def user(username):
    return "Hello %s" % (username)

if __name__ == "__main__":
    app.run()

Disabling character escaping is discussed here

Upvotes: 1

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