How can i unescape this query string

Question

I am sending this request to a service:

get_store_data = Typhoeus::Request.new("http://localhost:3000/api/v1/store?service=#{(proxy_ticket.service)}&ticket=#{proxy_ticket.ticket}")

proxy_ticket.service resolves to this string "http://localhost:3000/api/v1/store". When the request is sent, This string is escaped to this:

service=http%3A%2F%2Flocalhost%3A3000%2Fapi%2Fv1%2Fstore

The problem is that the service on the other end expects the service parameter as "http://localhost:3000/api/v1/store" how can i prevent this query string from being escaped?

Answer 1

The other side should be unescaping the params. If you would still like to know how to do it however here is the method uri.unescape which is used like so:

require 'uri'

enc_uri = URI.escape("http://example.com/?a=\11\15")
p enc_uri
# => "http://example.com/?a=%09%0D"

p URI.unescape(enc_uri)
# => "http://example.com/?a=\t\r"

If you ever want to quickly unescape a uri (and don't want to open a repl for some strange reason or other, like maybe it insulted your honour or something.) you can try this site