Encode URLs to handle even worse formatted twitter links

diff --git a/hamnadmin/hamnadmin/register/forms.py b/hamnadmin/hamnadmin/register/forms.py
index 554bcd418b4682149e568c140657722f5152b017..e72f710ddb14e682cb2cf5905b8e0932413965dc 100644 (file)
--- a/hamnadmin/hamnadmin/register/forms.py
+++ b/hamnadmin/hamnadmin/register/forms.py
@@ -7,6 +7,7 @@ from models import Blog
 
 from hamnadmin.util.aggregate import FeedFetcher
 
+import urllib
 import requests
 import requests_oauthlib
 
@@ -66,7 +67,7 @@ class BlogEditForm(forms.ModelForm):
                                                                                         settings.TWITTER_TOKEN,
                                                                                         settings.TWITTER_TOKENSECRET)
                try:
-                       r = tw.get('https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json?screen_name={0}'.format(u),
+                       r = tw.get('https://api.twitter.com/1.1/users/show.json?screen_name={0}'.format(urllib.quote_plus(u)),
                        timeout=5)
                        if r.status_code != 200:
                                raise forms.ValidationError("Could not find twitter user")