Ruby on Rails

On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 3:52 PM, Jimish Jobanputra <lists@ruby-forum.com> wrote:

> I am trying to parse a URL of this format
>
> http://example.com/links?deal_id=161&url=http://another_example.com/index.php?route=product/product&product_id=275
>
> I need to get 2 params
>
> deal_id and url
>
> However, in the above example, if I do params[:url], then I get
> "http://another_example.com/index.php?route=product/product"
>
> product_id=275 is dropped on the floor as its considered another
> params....
>
> CGI:escape for url is not an option since I have no choice in what I am
> being passed...
>
> Any ideas?

1) Parse the entire query string yourself instead of using the params
hash

2) Explicitly retrieve params['product_id'] and (re)build the url param
as you need it in the controller.

3) Fix the request (as in #2) in a Rack middleware filter.

4) Tell the "no-choice" source of these malformed unescaped URLs
to read the damn RFCs :-)

HTH,
--
Hassan Schroeder ------------------------ hassan.schroeder@gmail.com
twitter: @hassan

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