fix(edge-functions): decode percent-encoded paths before route matching

[holistis]

Summary

EdgeFunctionsRegistryImpl.matchURLPath() matches route patterns against the raw request pathname (new URL(req.url).pathname), which JavaScript's URL does not percent-decode. Route patterns are written against decoded paths (e.g. /admin/*), so a request to /%61dmin/x currently skips a route meant to match /admin/x.

Netlify Hosting's own redirect matching already decodes before comparing (packages/redirects/src/lib/rewriter.ts in @netlify/primitives calls decodeURIComponent(reqUrl.pathname)), so this brings local edge function routing in line with that behavior, and with what a running production site actually does.

How I found this

I was comparing netlify dev's local edge function routing against the redirects-matching code in @netlify/primitives while looking at routing-rule normalization more generally (case sensitivity, encoding, trailing slashes) across a few platforms with a similar declarative-rules-plus-runtime-matcher design. This specific gap sits entirely in local dev tooling — I also deployed a throwaway Netlify Hosting site with a matching [[redirects]] rule and confirmed production already decodes correctly before matching, so this is a netlify dev/production parity fix, not a live security issue.

What changed

• Decode the pathname once at the top of matchURLPath() (falling back to the raw path if decoding throws on a malformed sequence, so a weird request can't crash the dev server) and use the decoded value in all three places urlPath is compared against a pattern.
• Added a test that fails on the current code (asserts a percent-encoded request matches the same route as its decoded form) plus a control case and a malformed-encoding case.

Test plan

• npx vitest run tests/unit/lib/edge-functions/registry.test.ts — 5/5 passing
• Confirmed the new test fails against the pre-fix code (reverted the registry.ts change locally, same test run: 1 failing)
• npx tsc --noEmit -p . — clean
• npx eslint src/lib/edge-functions/registry.ts tests/unit/lib/edge-functions/registry.test.ts — clean

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Best,
Abdellah
github.com/holistis

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• Bug Fixes

  • URL routing now correctly handles percent-encoded paths, allowing encoded requests to match their intended routes.
  • Malformed percent-encoded paths no longer cause routing errors and safely fall back to the original path.

• Tests

  • Added coverage for encoded, unencoded, and malformed URL path scenarios.

Walkthrough

matchURLPath now decodes incoming URL paths before route and exclusion-pattern matching. Malformed percent-encoding uses the raw path without throwing. Unit tests cover literal, encoded, and malformed paths.

Priority: ⬇️ Low

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~10 minutes

Change: Bug fix

Suggested reviewers: jaredm563

Merge Risk: ⚪ Minimal · up to c70bc

Routing behavior and malformed-path fallback are covered; the only remaining suggestion is non-blocking comment cleanup.

🚥 Pre-merge checks | ✅ 5

✅ Passed checks (5 passed)

Check name	Status	Explanation
Title check	✅ Passed	The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: decoding percent-encoded paths before edge-function route matching.
Description check	✅ Passed	The description directly explains the routing issue, the percent-decoding fix, malformed-encoding fallback, test coverage, and production-parity objective.
Docstring Coverage	✅ Passed	No functions found in the changed files to evaluate docstring coverage. Skipping docstring coverage check. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff. Analyzed 0 functions across 2…
Linked Issues check	✅ Passed	Check skipped because no linked issues were found for this pull request.
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src/lib/edge-functions/registry.ts (1)

502-506: 📐 Maintainability & Code Quality | 🔵 Trivial | 💤 Low value

Remove the explanatory comments in the cited source and test locations. CLAUDE.md applies this rule to TypeScript files. No lint check enforces it, so this is a low-priority maintainability cleanup.

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In `@src/lib/edge-functions/registry.ts` around lines 502 - 506, Remove the
explanatory percent-encoding comments in the route-matching source and
corresponding test locations, while leaving the decoding behavior and fallback
handling unchanged.

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In `@src/lib/edge-functions/registry.ts`:
- Around line 502-506: Remove the explanatory percent-encoding comments in the
route-matching source and corresponding test locations, while leaving the
decoding behavior and fallback handling unchanged.

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