CODEWITHSUNDEEP
ruby-on-rails
knagode
knagode

Reputation: 6125

Rails wildcard route with full URL in param

I want to redirect to any given URL. I am trying this:

Route: 

get 'track/*redirect_url', to: 'tracker#track'

Controller:

redirect_to params[:redirect_url]

However when I visit tracker URLs - I am getting strange redirects:

http://localhost:3000/http://google.com/search=xyz => http:/google.com/search=xyz (one slash is missing!)

http://localhost:3000/http://google.com => http:/google (slash + .com is missing"

Rails is apparently somehow transforming URL parts but since I do not have a control over it - I need a way to fix it.

Any ideas how?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 352

Answers (1)

Alex Keene
Alex Keene

Reputation: 211

It happens because rails tries to parse that as a single url and fails because of escaping (// is parsed as "escaped /").

Also what happens to .com - it's parsed by rails as format (like .html or .json).

I would suggest you doing it with URL encoding and query-string params, eg:

http://localhost:3000/track/?redirect_url=https%3A%2F%2Fgoogle.com

Upvotes: 1

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