How do I get the current url in web2py?

Question

In web2py how do I get the complete url of the current page? I want the (possibly rewritten) url that appears in the browser address bar.

e.g. http://www.example.com/products/televisions?sort=price&page=2

Answer 1

The easiest method to generate this is probably:

URL(args=request.args, vars=request.get_vars, host=True)

You could also assemble the URL this way:

'%s://%s%s' % (request.env.wsgi_url_scheme, request.env.http_host,
               request.env.web2py_original_uri)

Answer 2

I know this is an old thread - this is what it took for me in 2017 to get the original url:

url = '%s://%s%s' % (request.env.wsgi_url_scheme, request.env.http_host,
           request.env.request_uri)

Close to the previous answer but the uri was elsewhere.