Cloudflare Developers•13mo ago

Cloudflare rewriting search parameters

I'm having some trouble with URL search parameters. Product hunt is sending visitors to my site with this URL: https://saymyname.how?ref=producthunt However, Cloudflare seems to be rewriting it to https://saymyname.how/ref=producthunt. How do I prevent that?

14 Replies

Chaika•13mo ago

That redirect is from your origin (the Pages app under), the CF-Cache-Status header gives it away You're using Functions? hmm

Chaika•13mo ago

I see 2 301s 1 from https://saymyname.how?ref=producthunt to /ref=producthunt (from the function) and another from /ref=producthunt to https://saymyname.how (from CF - no cf-cache-status header)

JustinNoelOP•13mo ago

Yes I'm using how no and cloudflare pages functions. To solve the original problem, I added this redirect rule: https://saymyname.how?ref=producthunt => https://saymyname.how otherwise the users landed on a 404 page

Chaika•13mo ago

oh I see, but you have no idea why your function is doing the initial redirect stripping the ? tag? Using a specific framework?

JustinNoelOP•13mo ago

oh I see, but you have no idea why your function is doing the initial redirect stripping the ? tag?

I am using hono I don't see any thing in my code that is causing that.

Chaika•13mo ago

It looks like for any request to the root page with a query string, it strips the first character in the url/the ? in url

Chaika•13mo ago

Doesn't happen on /login for example though, or if there's no query string

JustinNoelOP•13mo ago

Right. I taotally don't get that because my code doesn't do that. I'm going to ask this in the how no discord channel to.

Chaika•13mo ago

Do you have any special handling for the root page at all?

JustinNoelOP•13mo ago

This is my "catch-all" route:

/*
    This needs to be the very last route as it's basically a wildcard that will
    match any route off root
*/
app.all("/:customer-route-slug", async (c) => {
    return customerRoute({ c });
});

/*
    This needs to be the very last route as it's basically a wildcard that will
    match any route off root
*/
app.all("/:customer-route-slug", async (c) => {
    return customerRoute({ c });
});

theoretically, that shouldn't affect search parameters though. I found it! As usual, it's my fault. I have something special going on there with searches. Since my site has the search function disabled, I forgot all about it. thanks so much @Chaika and @Skye for jumping into help.

JustinNoelOP•13mo ago

It's fixed now! I still wish cloudflare didn't add that trailing slash to every url. https://saymyname.how/?ref=producthunt

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Chaika•13mo ago

hmm what do you mean by trailing slash? talking about how https://saymyname.how?ref=producthunt becomes https://saymyname.how/?ref=producthunt in the browser? If so, that's just browser behavior. No such thing as an empty path, it's always / if empty

JustinNoelOP•13mo ago

Oh..... I didn't realize that. You're right: `https://duckduckgo.com/?q=test&ia=web"

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Chaika•13mo ago

lol yea Discord even beautifies the links and adds the slash if you don't include it

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