Google App Engine: Ignore URL Case when finding appropriate Handler

Question

application = webapp.WSGIApplication(
                                 [('/', DefaultPage),
          ('/ClearDataPage', ClearDataPage),
          ('/DeleteTweets', DeleteTweets),
          ('/DeleteLinks', DeleteLinks),
          ('/awesome', Awesome),
          ('/RunScriptPage', RunScriptPage)],
                                 debug=True)

In this scenario, how do I make any variations of "Awesome" or for that matter any url case insensitive?

such that Awesome will always be directed to localhost:8080/awesome ...?

Answer 1

For such somewhat advanced dispatching needs, don't use the extremely lightweight webapp framework -- use any of the richer ones, such as web.py, that App Engine also supports; there, you can dispatch based on regular expressions, not just strings, so you can in particular use a case-insensitive regular expression pattern.

For example, '(?i)awesome' is the pattern for a regular expression that matches 'awesome' in a case-insensitive manner, as you desire.

Answer 2

You may use regular expressions in this case. Wikipedia: Regular Expressions

Some app engine specific examples can be found in the app engine docs.