Why doesn't a URL with two hyphens ( in one segment ) match a Route in my Route Table?

Question

I'm trying to resolve this URL Route:

Route articlesByCategory = new Route("articles/c{cid}-{category}", new Handler);

However, it seems like the following url won't resolve to this route:

// doesn't work
www.site.com/articles/c24-this-is-the-category-title

// This works
www.site.com/articles/c24-category

I assume it has to do with the dashes in the title, but can anyone tell me why this works this way?

Is there a way to allow dashes in the title for a URL route like this?

Answer 1

Which hyphen is the delimiter?

Server doesn't know which hyphen in your URL is delimiting cid from category. That's why it can't work. You could solve this by using something else than dashes in your category value. Or write a custom Route class that will be more flexible with definitions.

This answer on Stackoverflow may help you, because it can easily be used in your case...