What about using a routing constraint for allowing the entire file extension?
E.g. match "/download/:filename", :to => "downloads#download", :constraints =>
{ :filename => /.+/ }
On Aug 4, 2012, at 11:33 AM, Alexey <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hello,
>
> would it be ok to allow formats with a dot in routing requests, like
> "`http://example.com/users.xml.zip`";?
>
> If i am not mistaken, in this situation rails is only trying to match "zip"
> for format. I doubt many people are using such routes now because the
> controller part is not correctly recognized and the route is not matched
> automatically at all, so this change should not break many applications.
>
> I can think about a PR if i have time, i would appreciate an indication which
> source file to look at.
>
> I understand that formats with a dot may have other issues, but i do not
> think they are serious:
>
> ```ruby
> respond_to do |format|
> format.public_send(:'xml.zip') { render :'xml.zip' => @users}
> end
> ```
>
> What do you think?
>
> - Alexey Muranov.
>
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