Handle multiple slashes in url

[DarthTicius]

Astro Info

Astro                    v4.1.2
Node                     v20.12.0
System                   macOS (arm64)
Package Manager          npm
Output                   server
Adapter                  @astrojs/cloudflare
Integrations             @astrojs/tailwind
                         @astrojs/preact

If this issue only occurs in one browser, which browser is a problem?

No response

Describe the Bug

We want to redirect user if url contains multiple slashes
https://www.example.com/this//is/my/////directory to https://www.example.com/this/is/my/directory

But on the middleware side we do not get raw url : https://www.example.com/this//is/my/////directory
instead we are getting already sanitized version https://www.example.com/this/is/my/directory.

What's the expected result?

Expecting the url in client to be sanitized and not remaining https://www.example.com/this//is/my/////directory

Link to Minimal Reproducible Example

https://stackblitz.com/edit/github-tdbrwm?file=src%2Fmiddleware.ts

Participation

• I am willing to submit a pull request for this issue.

[ematipico]

I believe this is a known limitation because we can't translate this//is/my/////directory into the file system.

[cauboy]

Is there no way to get the original request with raw initial URL somewhere in Astro?

Would that mean that the only way to accomplish that is to put a reverse-proxy in front of Astro where the URL gets sanitized?

One reason for sanitizing URLs is for SEO. Google might think of '/path///other' and /path/other' as two separate things potentially leading to duplicate content.

[matthewp]

This is SSR so I wouldn't expect it to have that constraint. Did you debug to see where it gets stripped away?

[matthewp]

Looks like this was caused by this: #7935

In retrospect I think this PR was a mistake. @DarthTicius would you be interested in submitting a PR to fix?