Appengine URL API for Search Doesn't Work From Browser

[kevincon]

I tried visiting this url in my browser:
http://smspersonfinder.appspot.com/search?message=Dan%20Brown

That should send the message "Dan Brown" to appengine.

I get this python traceback (most likely a problem with encoding/decoding URLs on both sides:

Traceback (most recent call last):
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/ext/webapp/init.py", line 700, in call
handler.get(_groups)
File "/base/data/home/apps/ssmspersonfinder/1.350924882319313693/main.py", line 196, in get
result = search.handle(message)
File "/base/data/home/apps/ssmspersonfinder/1.350924882319313693/search/init.py", line 186, in handle
data = urllib2.urlopen("%s%s" % (host, query_uri)).read()
File "/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 124, in urlopen
return _opener.open(url, data)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 381, in open
response = self._open(req, data)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 399, in _open
'_open', req)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 360, in _call_chain
result = func(_args)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 1122, in https_open
return self.do_open(httplib.HTTPSConnection, req)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/urllib2.py", line 1087, in do_open
r = h.getresponse()
File "/base/python_runtime/python_dist/lib/python2.5/httplib.py", line 197, in getresponse
self._allow_truncated, self._follow_redirects)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/urlfetch.py", line 260, in fetch
return rpc.get_result()
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/apiproxy_stub_map.py", line 592, in get_result
return self.__get_result_hook(self)
File "/base/python_runtime/python_lib/versions/1/google/appengine/api/urlfetch.py", line 358, in _get_fetch_result
raise DownloadError(str(err))
DownloadError: ApplicationError: 2

[lionelyoung]

The code isn't urlencoding the string when using the web interface.

Try this:

Build query string

q = {'something': something,
'goes': goes,
'here': here}

query = urllib.urlencode(q)

url="http://smspersonfinder.appspot.com/search?%s" % query

[dbro]

this one word query works ok for me:
http://smspersonfinder.appspot.com/search?message=bauer

[kevincon]

Yeah, unfortunately the issue has to do with using characters that require
encoding, like spaces (which would become %20 in the URL). The appengine
side is not expecting someone to input from a browser I think.

But I was thinking we should build in support for that, so if someone tried it they wouldn't see the Python traceback. :P

On Tue, Jun 7, 2011 at 4:34 PM, dbro <
reply@reply.github.com>wrote:

this one word query works ok for me:
http://smspersonfinder.appspot.com/search?message=bauer

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