Route with PHP F3 matching an "http://..." adress

Question

I am working with PHP F3. I have some issues with their routing engine.

Let say my website is www.test.com , I would like to have a special handler when I enter this url: www.test.com/https://www.google.com/

I want to get the "https://www.google.com/" part and store it in a database.

For now I have this route: GET /*=Page->myHandler

which is not working when there are:, ., ?, etc symbols

My guess is to rewrite a special routing function for this case but how to bypass the existing one?

Answer 1

Yeah it's directly working against how the regex for the routing engine is parsing things in the Base->run() method. If I were to make a recommendation I would put your endpoint as something like myapp.com/incoming-url?url=[the url encoded URL you want to save in the database] If it's not URL encoded, even the browser will have a tough time figuring out what you want to do.