Routes containing periods don't work

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#1

Hey folks,

I’m writing a controller that retrieves files from Minio/S3 storage and serves them up at paths like /storage//.html. But, no matter what I do, my filenames get truncated to just “html” and don’t work. Here’s my route:

    get "/storage*filename", StorageController, :show

And a sample HTML snippet:

<iframe src="/storage/5b07dc02-cc8e-49d0-84c0-8e75081b730f/ig-ag302.html"></iframe>

Inspecting everything I can shows that the ig-ag302. is dropped from that URL when it hits the controller.

Any thoughts on how I can get this to work? I think I still want to serve it up from Phoenix because I want to retrieve the Document model from my database and check whether or not the user has access, but after that I want to stream the remaining URL path from the bucket as if it were a file. Unfortunately, I can’t just accept a format because, for instance, the HTML document generates lots of images, so I need links to those images to work as well.

Thanks for any suggestions.

#2

That’s definitely not something phoenix does, so we’d need to see code that shows the issue (preferably minimal code that can be copy/pasted into IEX that demonstrates just the issue).

#3

with this route and example, you will have the following params:

  params: %{"filename" => ["storage", "5b07dc02-cc8e-49d0-84c0-8e75081b730f", "ig-ag302.html"]},

Pay attention that filename in params is a list.

Which parts interest you? The last 2? In this case, you could match them directly:

get "/storage/:hash/:filename", StorageController, :show

which would translate into the following params in the controller:

params: %{"filename" => "ig-ag302.html", "hash" => "5b07dc02-cc8e-49d0-84c0-8e75081b730f"}
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