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mrdaliri
mrdaliri

Reputation: 7338

CakePHP routes named parameters in base path (/)

I get user referrer with r parameter. (r:code).

It works well on all :controller/:action/* pages, but when try to pass it to base path (/), my webserver returns error 403.

Here is my routes.php file:

    Router::connect('/', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display', 'home'));
    Router::connect('/pages/*', array('controller' => 'pages', 'action' => 'display'));
    Router::connectNamed(array('r' => '[\d]{4}'));

These URLs works well:

http://example.com/pages/home/r:1234
http://example.com/apples/eat/r:1234

but it doesn't work:

http://example.com/r:1234

What's wrong?

Question: Is it the way to capture referrer code from URL? or it's better to use passed arguments? (http://example.com/1234/controller/action/.......)

Upvotes: 3

Views: 964

Answers (2)

AD7six
AD7six

Reputation: 66198

Use a get argument

If you use a get argument - your code will be a lot more robust:

/?r=urlencodedurl

This is independent of routes and therefore won't break or otherwise be a problem irrespective of the url used. You access get args via the request object:

$r = $this->request->query['r']

Upvotes: 1

Alireza Rahmani Khalili
Alireza Rahmani Khalili

Reputation: 2954

Apache 2.2 actually the APR test_safe_name() function intentionally disallows this kind of ":" character within a URI on Windows servers. because This is basically for avoiding URLs like http://www.mysite.com/C:/SomeFile.exe but is actually annoying. Also, the Windows FindFirstFile() function will return ERROR_INVALID_NAME instead of ERROR_FILE_NOT_FOUND for any name attempting data stream access using the ":" character. The choice of the ":" character as the namespace separator in MediaWiki was an unfortunate one for use on Windows servers .

Upvotes: 2

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