Function escape_path

Lib/http/cookiejar.py:678–690

Escape any invalid characters in HTTP URL, and uppercase all escapes.

(path)

def uppercase_escaped_char(match):
    return "%%%s" % match.group(1).upper()
def escape_path(path):
    """Escape any invalid characters in HTTP URL, and uppercase all escapes."""
    # There's no knowing what character encoding was used to create URLs
    # containing %-escapes, but since we have to pick one to escape invalid
    # path characters, we pick UTF-8, as recommended in the HTML 4.0
    # specification:
    # http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40/appendix/notes.html#h-B.2.1
    # And here, kind of: draft-fielding-uri-rfc2396bis-03
    # (And in draft IRI specification: draft-duerst-iri-05)
    # (And here, for new URI schemes: RFC 2718)
    path = urllib.parse.quote(path, HTTP_PATH_SAFE)
    path = ESCAPED_CHAR_RE.sub(uppercase_escaped_char, path)
    return path

def reach(h):
    """Return reach of host h, as defined by RFC 2965, section 1.