URLParam sometimes returns URL-encoded variables

[cespedes]

Hello!

As the title says, when I try to get a URL parameter from a http.Request object (calling chi.URLParam), it sometimes returns a URL-encoded result, and it only depends on whether r.URL.RawPath is set or not.

This is because in function *Mux.routeHTTP(), it checks if r.URL.RawPath is set and uses it instead of r.URL.Path; however, r.URL.RawPath is only present sometimes:

chi/mux.go

Lines 420 to 431 in 7f28096

	routePath := rctx.RoutePath
	if routePath == "" {
	if r.URL.RawPath != "" {
	routePath = r.URL.RawPath
	} else {
	routePath = r.URL.Path
	}
	if routePath == "" {
	routePath = "/"
	}
	}

IMHO, the best course of action will be to use url.EscapedPath() to get the routePath and then url.PathUnescape() to set every value.

Simple program to show the bug:

package main

import (
        "fmt"
        "net/http"

        "github.com/go-chi/chi/v5"
)

func main() {
        r := chi.NewRouter()
        r.Get("/{key}", func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
                key := chi.URLParam(r, "key")
                fmt.Printf("Path=%q RawPath=%q key=%q\n", r.URL.Path, r.URL.RawPath, key)
                fmt.Fprintf(w, "Path=%q RawPath=%q key=%q\n", r.URL.Path, r.URL.RawPath, key)
        })
        http.ListenAndServe(":3333", r)
}

Simple execution to see the problem:

$ curl "http://localhost:3333/It%20is%20great"
Path="/It is great" RawPath="" key="It is great"
$ curl "http://localhost:3333/It's%20great"
Path="/It's great" RawPath="/It's%20great" key="It's%20great"

If it is OK for you, I will open a Pull Request.

Thank you very much,

Juan

[prm-dan]

+1. I'm hitting this same issue too. The logic seems inconsistent.

http://localhost:5150/v1/content/{contentID}

This URL

http://localhost:5150/v1/content/testid%1FABC

extracts contentId as

contentID=testid\u001fABC

But this URL

http://localhost:5150/v1/content/testid%3BABC

extracts contentId as

contentID=testid%3BABC