How to catch a parameter that contains a full url

rubyonrails-talk
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Hi I need some help!

I have controller that I need to pass a full url (with its own parametrs) as a parameter, e.g. I want to call my controller with:

/mycontroller/catchurl?url=somedomain.com

and in action "catchurl" in mycontroller.rb I would like to have params[:url] to be "somedomain.com;

I guess that one could do something smart with map.connect but so far I have failed completely.

Is there anyone that can give me some help?

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whats the problem? params[:url] should work, do you not want to use it that way ?

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The problem is that the url parameter gets split up into several parameters, i.e. params[:url] is somedomain.com and params[:param2] is yy

What I want is to treat the whole url as one entity, I do not want it to be slit up into separate parameters.

straightflush@gmail.com wrote:

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The problem is that the url given above is not valid - ? and & need to be escaped in the parameter value. Browsers do this automatically behind the scenes, and then Rails transforms the parameters back. It seems unclear why you’re having this

problem - url_for automatically handles the encoding, and so do forms.

Hope this helps,