Question 3

Subject: Workers not applied

I've just added a Worker on the Cloudflare Dashboard for my website: it works in the debugger but doesn't work when I query the site. Why is that? Is there anything to activate or anything I could check?

Step 1:  Sorry to hear that you're having issues with your worker, but no worries. I'll help you solve the problem. So it looks like it could potentially be an Error 10053, which is an invalid redirect source URL with query string. What that means is that the source URL contains an unsupported query string component.

[I went to Cloudflare's documentation and searched for errors related to unsupported query string components.]

Step 2: I'm going to check your Worker code and see if there are any inconsistencies or issues. I'll specifically check where you called  Response.redirect(), fetch(), new URL(), or construct Request objects. I will log the URL before redirect/fetch and make sure your query strings are encoded (use encodeURIComponent or URL/SearchParams) and that you passed a proper string/URL instance.

[I'm detailing what I'm doing so that they can do it on their own the next time it happens.]

Step 3: So can you change your URL to look like this: https://user:password@www.example.com:443/search?q=term#results which fixed the issue. Now it works when you query the site. Is there anything else I could help you with? Alright, sounds good. Have a wonderful rest of the day!

[I told them what to change it to and it fixed the problem.]

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Documentation from:

https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/troubleshooting/http-status-codes/ in order to find the code to fix the issue.

https://developers.cloudflare.com/support/troubleshooting/http-status-codes/cloudflare-10xxx-errors/error-10053/#error-10053-invalid-redirect-source-url-with-query-string in order to locate the exact fix.

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