fix: harden URL handling across Router and Start - #8308
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In `@packages/router-core/src/index.ts`:
- Line 322: Restore the public isAbsoluteUrl export in the `@tanstack/router-core`
entry point alongside getUrlScheme, preserving the existing API for external
consumers; do not remove it as part of this change.
In `@packages/start-server-core/src/createStartHandler.ts`:
- Around line 852-856: Update the serializeRedirect branch in createStartHandler
so the reconstructed redirect retains response headers for serverFnFetcher and
parseRedirect, while keeping headers out of the serialized JSON payload. Use the
existing responseHeaders value when constructing the redirect passed to the
client.
In `@packages/vue-router/src/link.tsx`:
- Around line 700-704: Update the fuzzy active matching boundary logic in the
Vue link implementation and the equivalent React and Solid link implementations
to accept any current path when nextPath already ends with “/”; otherwise retain
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Handle trailing-slash roots in fuzzy active matching.
removeTrailingSlash preserves / and ${basepath}/. When nextPath ends with /, the fuzzy boundary check must accept the prefix without inspecting currentPath[nextPath.length]. Otherwise, root links can become inactive on child routes, and Vue does not apply data-status, aria-current, or activeProps. React and Solid contain the same boundary logic, so apply the equivalent fix there.
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In `@packages/vue-router/src/link.tsx` around lines 700 - 704, Update the fuzzy
active matching boundary logic in the Vue link implementation and the equivalent
React and Solid link implementations to accept any current path when nextPath
already ends with “/”; otherwise retain the existing exact-match or
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not part of this PR, but might be an interesting separate issue to fix
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@Sheraff, agreed. This change is outside the scope of this PR.
Would you like me to open a follow-up GitHub issue for the Vue, React, and Solid fuzzy active-matching behavior?
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Merging this PR will improve performance by 16.48%
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| ⚡ | Simulation | client-links navigation loop (solid) |
1,230.9 ms | 528.2 ms | ×2.3 |
| ⚡ | Simulation | client-side navigation loop (solid) |
262.1 ms | 197.5 ms | +32.71% |
| ⚡ | Simulation | client-route-tree-scale navigation loop (solid) |
347 ms | 268.2 ms | +29.34% |
| ⚡ | Simulation | client-control-flow navigation loop (solid) |
155.5 ms | 122.3 ms | +27.16% |
| ⚡ | Simulation | client-async-pipeline navigation loop (solid) |
161.3 ms | 130.3 ms | +23.8% |
| ⚡ | Simulation | client-history navigation loop (solid) |
131.9 ms | 110.4 ms | +19.44% |
| ⚡ | Simulation | client-loaders navigation loop (solid) |
196.5 ms | 165.6 ms | +18.64% |
| ⚡ | Simulation | client-rewrites navigation loop (solid) |
184.2 ms | 156.3 ms | +17.87% |
| ⚡ | Simulation | client-preload interaction loop (solid) |
190.2 ms | 163.7 ms | +16.23% |
| ⚡ | Simulation | client-head navigation loop (solid) |
467.1 ms | 424.2 ms | +10.11% |
| ⚡ | Simulation | client-search-params navigation loop (solid) |
274.1 ms | 257.2 ms | +6.6% |
| ⚡ | Simulation | ssr redirect (vue) |
135.7 ms | 131.7 ms | +3.03% |
| 👁 | Simulation | client-side navigation loop (vue) |
172.9 ms | 179.4 ms | -3.64% |
| 👁 | Simulation | client-control-flow navigation loop (vue) |
93.3 ms | 96.6 ms | -3.4% |
| 👁 | Simulation | client-links navigation loop (vue) |
356.4 ms | 410.5 ms | -13.16% |
| 👁 | Simulation | client-route-tree-scale navigation loop (vue) |
180.4 ms | 187.6 ms | -3.85% |
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packages/router-core/src/router.ts (1)
1257-1257: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | ⚡ Quick winConsider normalizing
options.originbefore storing it.
isExternalUrlcomparesurl.originwiththis.originby string equality.URL.originnever contains a path or a trailing slash. If a user passeshttps://example.com/, every URL becomes external, so all navigations turn into document navigations. The new doc comment at Line 536 states the requirement, but a one-line normalization removes the failure mode.♻️ Proposed normalization
- this.origin = this.options.origin! + this.origin = this.options.origin! + if (this.origin) { + try { + this.origin = new URL(this.origin).origin + } catch { + // Keep the configured value; URL construction below will surface it. + } + } if (!this.origin) {🤖 Prompt for AI Agents
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In `@packages/router-core/src/router.ts`:
- Line 1257: Normalize options.origin to the canonical URL origin before
assigning it to this.origin, removing any path or trailing slash so string
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Validate the final destinations used by history, Router links, document navigation, redirects, and Start prerendering. Validation follows rewrites, masks, custom history formatting, and explicit
Locationheaders so the URL that is used receives the protocol check.beforeunloadprompt after document-navigation blockers have allowed the navigation.Configured
originvalues must already be normalized, without a path or trailing slash. The default protocol allowlist remainshttp:,https:,mailto:, andtel:. The unusedisAbsoluteUrlhelper and export are removed.Regression coverage includes history normalization, final link hrefs and state transitions, masked and shared redirects, Start response handling, and prerender boundaries. The URL-prefix tests include all 894 inputs from a pinned WPT corpus, with the upstream JSON preserved unchanged and checked by SHA-256. Native
URLderives the expectations, with four explicit malformed relative-input exceptions.Notes on URL validation corpus
We pulled the URL validation corpus from web platform tests, this is what makes the majority of the +14k diff.
Validation
Ported onto current main at
539e5985cf, retaining the document-navigation helper from #8287, the cache optimization from #8288, and the SSR URL regression tests from #8307.The changeset covers patch releases for
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