Unable to create params with dots in them because sinatra-respond_to always assumes they refer to mime-type.

[ashaw]

If I explicitly set a route to capture something into params, such as

get %r{/api/url/(.+[^?])} do
  #action
end

and I request something like /api/url/http://someurl.com/somepage.php, that regex should capture dots into params[:captures]. Sinatra-respond_to chokes on the dot and throws: Unknown media type php Try registering the extension with a mime type. Route patterns should take precedence over mime-type sniffing.

[pelcasandra]

I'm having the same problem. Is there any solution or hack around this?

[cehoffman]

I'd be interested in knowing if you guys came up with workarounds for this.

The only solution I have come up with is using a ?format=<expected format> on the requests. This will override the path_info rewriting.

[vmoravec]

@cehoffman
sinatra-contrib offers similar functionality: https://github.com/sinatra/sinatra-contrib/blob/master/lib/sinatra/respond_with.rb

[cehoffman]

I've seen this alternative before. I hadn't looked too closely at it, but now I see the main difference in what types of paths each offer.

Perhaps there is room for a configuration setting that disables using mime detection by extension at the application level. Doing it at the individual route level would be rather complicated in the current sinatra setup.