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dash not allowed in custom routed uri since 1.7?
#1

[eluser]thenetmonkey[/eluser]
Hello,

I've just encountered a strange problem since upgrading from 163 to 170: the router isn't letting me use a - (dash) in my uri segments anymore.

The following route is setup in config/routes.php:
Code:
$route['feed/(:any)'] = '/feed/index/$1';

with this rule in place, the following URL used to work:
http://www.wineconsigners.com/feed/wine-searcher

Now, however, I get a 404 page thrown even before the constructor for my feed class is built ( I put a show_error( 'feed' ); in my feed constructor just after the parent::Controller(); call and I still get the 404 )

The URL works fine when I take the dash out, so I've just told my vendor to use the new feed URL of http://www.wineconsigners.com/feed/winesearcher and it's working fine.

I asked around on IRC and someone named [OES] suggested I try using this route:
Code:
$route['feed/(.*)'] = '/feed/index/$1';

and that regexp didn't work either.

My permitted_uri_chars looks like this:
Code:
$config['permitted_uri_chars'] = 'a-z 0-9~%.:_\-\+';
this was the same permitted_uri_chars I used in 163 and it worked there.

I tried doing a diff between the 163 Router.php and 170 Router.php lib, but there are only a couple differences, and none of them look like they have anything to do with handling dashes, but I could be wrong.

I'm running PHP Version 4.3.10-22 on Apache 1.3.33.

Has anyone else ran into this when the upgraded to 170?
Is there a known fix?
Should I file a bug report?

Thanks in advance for your help.
Billy
#2

[eluser]sophistry[/eluser]
@thenetmonkey - welcome to CI.

unless you are using the latest SVN 1.7.1 version of CI disallowed characters would not give you a 404 (previous to this change disallowed chars just got you an exit(); with a string message - not even HTML).

anyhow, if you are not using SVN then your problem must be elsewhere.

what does your ruri segment look like? did you try echoing it?
#3

[eluser]thenetmonkey[/eluser]
@sohpistry - thanks

Nope, not using SVN, just normal 1.7.0 release. I'm accustomed to seeing the old string message when I use a non-permitted character, but that change you mention in the SVN 171 sounds nice.

I've only been using CI for about a month, so I'm still learning how the internals work.
I've tried doing this in my controller:

Code:
class Feed extends Controller {
  function Feed {
    parent::Controller();
    show_error( $this->uri->ruri_string() . "\n" . $this->uri->uri_string() );
  }

And this works fine if I don't have a dash in the uri, but if I do have a dash, all I get is the 404 page.

So where should I put the show_error statement so that it displays before the 404?
#4

[eluser]sophistry[/eluser]
how about in the show_404() function? it's in codeigniter/Common.php
#5

[eluser]thenetmonkey[/eluser]
Hmm... looks like I don't know how to access the uri contents at that point.

$this->uri->uri_string() and $this->uri->ruri_string() don't work in the show_404() function, I guess $this isn't defined?

I tried doing $ci =& get_instance(), but get_instance() isn't defined either at that point.

So, how should I echo the uri or ruri string?
#6

[eluser]sophistry[/eluser]
doh! that code must be bailing out early.

i would just follow the code execution - into the Router.php class i suppose.
#7

[eluser]Michael Wales[/eluser]
Try using Regex rather than the (:any) tag.

Code:
$route['feed/([A-Za-z0-9-_]+)'] = 'feed/index/$1';

I know for a fact that works - I do it all the time. Smile
#8

[eluser]thenetmonkey[/eluser]
I figured it out.

My permitted_uri_chars was messed up.

my permitted_uri_chars was:
Code:
$config['permitted_uri_chars'] = 'a-z 0-9~%.:_\-\+';

I changed it to:
Code:
$config['permitted_uri_chars'] = 'a-z 0-9~%.:_+-';

The reason is the the uri->_filter_uri() function does this:
Code:
preg_match("|^[".preg_quote($this->config->item('permitted_uri_chars'))."]+$|i", $str))

preg_quote escapes all chars that have special regex meaning. I didn't know that, so I was trying to quote the chars myself. I'm not sure how my permitted_uri_chars was working on 163, or why it broke in 170 when a uri had a dash in it, but fixing the permitted_uri_chars string makes everything work now.

Thanks to everyone who helped out on this.




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