[Templates] Problem with URL ecoded vars? Upgraded from Template-Toolkit v 2.11 to 2.19

[Dave Cross]

David Martin wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> My first post to the list in maybe 3 years.  Back in 2003-4 my partner and I
> built a midsize educational framework Class::DBI and Template-Toolkit (v
> 2.11 then, 2.19 now) project for the U.S. Dept. of Education.  It worked
> fine for 4 years until the host folded up shop.
> 
> I got it back live today on a new host and now that all the modules were in
> place it seems to work just fine except for one problem.  Some templates
> need to embed Flash animations and the URLs are now url-encoded like
> %2Fcourses%2Fwetlands%2Fm%2Fi0101.swf.

[ snip ]

> Could this be a TT version issue?  Any advice where to look?

You should take a look at the Changes file. In particular the changes
for version 2.15b include:

  * Changed the uri filter to escape all reserved characters as per
  URI::Escape and RFC2396.  This now includes &, @, /, ;, :, =, +, ?
  and $ which were previously not escaped.  Thanks to islue@cpan.org
  for reporting the problem.

  http://rt.cpan.org/Ticket/Display.html?id=19593

However, the changes for version 2.19 include:

  * Added the url filter as a less aggressive form of the uri filter.
  Whereas the uri filter now (from v2.16 onwards) encodes all the
  reserved characters (@, :, /, etc.) as per RFC2396, the url filter
  leaves them intact and thus behaves just like the uri filter used
  to.

  http://tt2.org/pipermail/templates/2007-March/009277.html

So you fix might well be as simple as switching from the uri filter to
the url filter.

Dave...