Rails friendly URL routing with public id

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Rails friendly URL routing with public id

I would like to use rails route creation for public user id. The url would look like

http://mysite.com/identity/:html_encoded_openid
or
http://mysite.com/identity/:html_encoded_openid.xml

This will be so that the site can query for a public identifier and either view information for that identifier, or get an XML document containing that information. Standard Rails stuff.

I am looking for your experience on several things:

The standard rail routes seem to blow .s in openid so that:

http://mysite.com/identity/openid

finds a route, but

http://mysite.com/identity/openid.myopenid.com

will not be.
What security issues will I need to look for?
Is there a better way to encode the request, perhaps with a query string?

And I would rather not use the standard friendly url method:

my-friendly-openid-com
or
23-my-friendly-openid-com

if it is possible.

+1

security rest ruby-on-rails openid routing

Jamal Hansen 03 jan. 09 at 20:37

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jdl · Accepted Answer · 2009-01-03T21:08:32+0000

You can handle this second route with something like this (replace the action name with something real).

map.connect 'identity/:id', :controller => "identity", 
                            :action => "foo", 
                            :requirements => {:id => /(\w+\.?)+/}

Rails friendly URL routing with public id

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