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No longer possible to generate URLs containing %252F #48656

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Symfony version(s) affected

5.4.14

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After upgrading Symfony from 4.4 to 5.4, some of our users complained that some generated links no longer worked. We tracked down that these all contained %2F. These links were previously generated with %252F. Parameters with slashes cause an error in Symfony, so these values must be URL encoded first to %2F. When this is passed in as a parameter, % should become %25, making %2F into %252F. However, something is preventing %2F from being further encoded as all other sequences encode correctly.

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Twig:

{{ url('name_of_route', {parameter: '%2F'}) }}

Symfony:

class MyController extends AbstractController {
  public function myAction(\Symfony\Component\HttpFoundation\Request $request) {
    $this->generateUrl('name_of_route', ['parameter' => '%2F']);
  }
}

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