Opened 14 years ago
Closed 14 years ago
#15690 closed (invalid)
HttpRequest path should be in a stable order
| Reported by: | Jeremy Dunck | Owned by: | nobody |
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| Component: | Core (Other) | Version: | 1.2 |
| Severity: | Keywords: | ||
| Cc: | Triage Stage: | Unreviewed | |
| Has patch: | no | Needs documentation: | no |
| Needs tests: | no | Patch needs improvement: | no |
| Easy pickings: | no | UI/UX: | no |
Description
If Request.get_full_path and friends returned querystring in a stable (not browser-specified) order, it could be more easily used for cache key input.
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No - they should leave the query string in the same order as the browser specified, because changing the order can potentially change the meaning of the query. That might be unusual, but I'm not aware of any RFC that would forbid it. In fact there is no requirement that a querystring has to be name value pairs at all - that is how they are used by browsers for encoding GET forms, but there is no HTTP requirement that they should be used that way. At this level, Django should be treating the query string as opaque.
Trac happens to use URLs where the order of query parameters matters a lot e.g. this report