Percent signs in request results in "URI malformed" error

[silverwind]

Example:

(require('rlite-router')(() => console.log('404'), {
  '/foo': () => console.log('foo'),
}))('/a%b');

Results in

URIError: URI malformed
    at decodeURIComponent (<anonymous>)
    at recurseUrl (node_modules/rlite-router/rlite.js:65:19)
    at recurseUrl (node_modules/rlite-router/rlite.js:67:14)
    at lookup (node_modules/rlite-router/rlite.js:99:42)
    at run (node_modules/rlite-router/rlite.js:119:20)

Do I need to pass URL-encoded values, or is it a possible bug?

[chrisdavies]

Yes, rlite decodes the URL components so that unescaped values can be passed to the handlers. (e.g. the handlers would get "Chris Davies" instead of "Chris%20Davies". If you pass an invalid URL, it will currently throw an exception (that's the behavior of decodeURIComponent). So, your URL would work if you passed /a%25b instead.

Generally speaking, browsers do this for you, so the only problem is when you manually pass in an invalid URL as in your example.

[silverwind]

Okay, I'll just replace % with %25 before passing it to rlite. Hopefully this is the only such case.