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Passing url as parameter to Node / Express app

I have a simple Node / Express route as shown below:

var app = express();

app.get('gettags/:page', function(request,response)
{
    var thePage = request.params.page;
    ...
    ...
}

The problem I am facing is that if I pass in the URL as a parameter, I get a "Can not GET" message. So if I call it like this:

http://www.mynodeapp.com/gettags/http://www.someurl.com/?withquery=something

I get the message "Can not GET". It's been a couple of years since I've been using Node, so I'm probably forgetting something very basic. But I can't get past this, and Googling this issue hasn't brought anything useful.

Thanks for any help!

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Your node code looks great, but for that you will need to URI encode your argument:

var url = 'http://www.mynodeapp.com/gettags/' + encodeURIComponent('http://www.someurl.com/?withquery=something')

//becomes: http://www.mynodeapp.com/gettags/http%3A%2F%2Fwww.someurl.com%2F%3Fwithquery%3Dsomething


https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/JavaScript/Reference/Global_Objects/encodeURIComponent

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