🚀 Added possibility to work with urlencoded special characters in the route

app.go

@@ -86,6 +86,11 @@ type Settings struct {
 	// Default: false
 	Immutable bool
 
+	// Converts all encoded characters in the route back before setting the path for the context,
+	// so that the routing can also work with urlencoded special characters
+	// Default: false
+	UnescapePath bool
+
 	// Enable or disable ETag header generation, since both weak and strong etags are generated
 	// using the same hashing method (CRC-32). Weak ETags are the default when enabled.
 	// Default value false

ctx.go

@@ -987,10 +987,16 @@ func (ctx *Ctx) XHR() bool {
 
 // prettifyPath ...
 func (ctx *Ctx) prettifyPath() {
+	// If UnescapePath enabled, we decode the path
+	if ctx.app.Settings.UnescapePath {
+		pathBytes := getBytes(ctx.path)
+		pathBytes = fasthttp.AppendUnquotedArg(pathBytes[:0], pathBytes)
+		ctx.path = getString(pathBytes)
+	}
 	// If CaseSensitive is disabled, we lowercase the original path
 	if !ctx.app.Settings.CaseSensitive {
 		// We are making a copy here to keep access to the original path
-		ctx.path = utils.ToLower(ctx.pathOriginal)
+		ctx.path = utils.ToLower(ctx.path)
 	}
 	// If StrictRouting is disabled, we strip all trailing slashes
 	if !ctx.app.Settings.StrictRouting && len(ctx.path) > 1 && ctx.path[len(ctx.path)-1] == '/' {

router_test.go

@@ -146,6 +146,28 @@ func Test_Route_Match_Middleware(t *testing.T) {
 	utils.AssertEqual(t, "bar/fasel", getString(body))
 }
 
+func Test_Route_Match_UnescapedPath(t *testing.T) {
+	app := New(&Settings{UnescapePath: true})
+
+	app.Use("/créer", func(ctx *Ctx) {
+		ctx.Send("test")
+	})
+
+	resp, err := app.Test(httptest.NewRequest(MethodGet, "/cr%C3%A9er", nil))
+	utils.AssertEqual(t, nil, err, "app.Test(req)")
+	utils.AssertEqual(t, StatusOK, resp.StatusCode, "Status code")
+
+	body, err := ioutil.ReadAll(resp.Body)
+	utils.AssertEqual(t, nil, err, "app.Test(req)")
+	utils.AssertEqual(t, "test", getString(body))
+
+	// check deactivated behavior
+	app.Settings.UnescapePath = false
+	resp, err = app.Test(httptest.NewRequest(MethodGet, "/cr%C3%A9er", nil))
+	utils.AssertEqual(t, nil, err, "app.Test(req)")
+	utils.AssertEqual(t, StatusNotFound, resp.StatusCode, "Status code")
+}
+
 func Test_Route_Match_Middleware_HasPrefix(t *testing.T) {
 	app := New()