Sorry, that replace statement collapses multiple plus signs into a single
space, but that's probably never what you want, my mistake! Should be this:
decodeURIComponent(url.parse("http://host/path/some+thing%20with%20spaces+in+it/bar";,
true).path.replace(/\+/g, ' '))
Alternatively, there's this little trick, but I prefer the above personally!
decodeURIComponent(url.parse("http://host/path/some+thing%20with%20spaces+in+it/bar";,
true).path.split('+').join(' '))
-Matt
On Apr 24, 2012, at 4:51 PM, Matt Patenaude wrote:
> If Node automatically performed a URL decode on the pathname, you lose data —
> e.g., if your application depended on knowing whether someone encoded a space
> as a "+" or %20 (it seems silly, but let's say you can contrive an example
> where that matters), you'd have no way to tell from that information. URL
> parsing and decoding are conceptually separate steps, and the implementation
> in Node reflects that.
>
> You should be able to get a correctly-decoded URL using something like:
>
>
> decodeURIComponent(url.parse("http://host/path/some+thing%20with%20spaces+in+it/bar";,
> true).path.replace(/\++/g, ' '))
>
> Just make sure you always resolve the +'s first, because if someone
> percent-encodes a literal + sign, that would then be translated into a space
> if done in the wrong order.
>
> Hope that helps!
>
> -Matt
>
>
> On Apr 24, 2012, at 4:25 PM, Matt wrote:
>
>> > url.parse("http://host/path/some+thing%20with%20spaces+in+it/bar";, true);
>> { protocol: 'http:',
>> slashes: true,
>> host: 'host',
>> hostname: 'host',
>> href: 'http://host/path/some+thing%20with%20spaces+in+it/bar',
>> search: '',
>> query: {},
>> pathname: '/path/some+thing%20with%20spaces+in+it/bar',
>> path: '/path/some+thing%20with%20spaces+in+it/bar' }
>>
>> I kind of hoped it would set the path to '/path/some thing with spaces in
>> it/bar' which would be appropriate for passing to the filesystem. How come
>> it doesn't decode the path?
>>
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