Laravel 5.6 How to pass URL as a URL parameter?

Question

Please any one could help me figure this out.

I have below URL for my route:

http://localhost:8000/notifications/e343ec2f-9e3d-08df90e7030b/read/http://localhost:8000/profile

And my route is:

Route::get('/notifications/{id}/read/{redirect_to}', 'NotiController@readAndRedirect');

This is throwing 404.

I have also tried with following:

Route::get('/notifications/{id}/read/{redirect_to}', 'NotiController@readAndRedirect')->where('redirect_to', 'some-regular-exp');

But it didn't worked.

Any idea how to achieve this?

Regards, Jassi

Answer 1

Adding to what others are suggesting here, perhaps consider instead of:

http://localhost:8000/notifications/e343ec2f-9e3d-08df90e7030b/read/http://localhost:8000/profile

To have the route look like:

http://localhost:8000/notifications/e343ec2f-9e3d-08df90e7030b/read/profile

And then prepend the http://localhost:8000/ part in your code after handling the notification. Normally you don't want to redirect to a completely different host (I would assume), and it's potentially a security vulnerability (CSRF and such).

Answer 2

Take a look at urlencode .

It's because you can't have special characters in your URL.

Answer 3

You should always urlencode strings that are put in an url. If not, characters like / or ? might break your url.

echo 'http://localhost:8000/notifications/e343ec2f-9e3d-08df90e7030b/read/' . urlencode('http://localhost:8000/profile');