Express route for facebook request

Question

I have a request coming into my app that looks like this:

POST /?post%2F5125504547b49d91b2000001 200 53ms - 9.35kb

Which, when unencoded looks like:

POST /?post/5125504547b49d91b2000001 200 53ms - 9.35kb

My question, is how to I capture this with a express route?

I've tried the following:

app.all "/?post/:id",

app.all "/?post%2F:id",

Any ideas?

score 2 · Answer 1 · edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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The route path definition is a regex so you need to double escape the question mark, which is a special character

app.all "/\\?post%2F:id"

edited May 23 '17 at 12:21

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answered Mar 14 '13 at 19:31

Pero P.

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score 1 · Accepted Answer · edited Mar 14 '13 at 19:09

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I would suggest using middleware to manipulate the url back into something 'normal' so that you can route and respond to it as you would in express.

Maybe something like this pseudo code:

  app.use(function (req, res, next) {
    if (req.originalUrl.match(/^\/(\?post)/))
      req.url = req.originalUrl = req.originalUrl.replace('%2F', '/').replace('/?','/');
    next();
  });

edited Mar 14 '13 at 19:09

wesbos

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answered Mar 14 '13 at 18:48

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Express route for facebook request

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