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Handling URI reserved characters for GET requests

I'm making GET requests from my angular service by replacing reserved characters using encodeURIComponent so that it is sent to URL like

http://localhost:4200/api/verifiers/https%3A%2F%2Fwww.web.com%2Fdev%2F0/services/xx%3Ayy%3AV00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000%23read-device

However when my FastAPI backend receive the request it will display a 404 Not Found error because some characters like %2F are recognized as / so the controller fails at parsing the URL related to the method that should handle the request.

For example the above URL is received from my backend as

/verifiers/https%3A//www.web.com/dev/0/services/xx%3Ayy%3AV00000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000000%23read-device
Solution

  • Solved by postfixing :path in the URL path of the handlers