How do I use a Sinatra URL as parameter in route?

routes, ruby, sinatra

Solution

This will not work as you specified. As you noticed, the slashes cause trouble. What you can do instead is pass the URL as a querystring param instead of part of the URL.

get '/example' do
  url = params[:url]
  # do code with url
end

Then you can crawl whatever you want by sending your data to `http://yoursite.com/example?url=http://example.com/blog/archives`

Problem

I am using Sinatra routes and I would like to interpret, if possible, a normal HTTP address as parameter in a route: ``` url http://somesite/blog/archives ``` where the route is: ``` /http://somesite/blog/archives ``` The code is: ``` get '/:url' do |u| (some code dealing with url) ``` The various '/' in the HTTP URL are creating problems. The workaround I found is passing only the URL part represented by 'somesite' in the example above, and then using: ``` get '/:url' do |u| buildUrl = "http://#{u}/blog/archives" (some code dealing with url) ``` Is there a way to deal directly with the full URL?

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