PHP Fat Free Framework: fails when GET params contain a URL

Question

I'm using Fat Free Framework and I want to handle an incoming request like: http://example.com/api/method/?user_id=1&url=http://newsite.com

I use the F3::route method to handle GET requests to this method but I get the following error:

parse_url(/method?user_id=1&url=http://newsite.com): Unable to parse URL

I think I've tracked this down to a problem with the PHP function parse_url() which fails on relative URLs.

Any ideas how I can get F3 to properly handle URLs in the GET query params?

Answer 1

I've run into this problem before. If you don't have control of the incoming URL not being url-encoded, you can do this as a dirty hack before F3 is run to get rid of the slashes in the argument:

$_SERVER['REQUEST_URI'] = str_replace('http://', 'http:', $_SERVER['REQUEST_URI']);

Answer 2

why not simplify and use urlencode('http://www.google.com');???