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🎯 Changes

Fixes #8777.

getNormalizedURL rewrites the request query through URLSearchParams (, becomes %2C, %20 becomes +). loadServerRoute then compared that href with the canonical publicHref as raw strings. A serializer that writes tags=1,2 never matched, so SSR answered 307 to the same URL forever.

Both hrefs now go through the same search normalization (normalizeHrefSearchEncoding in utils.ts) before the comparison. getNormalizedURL uses the same helper. A real canonical difference still redirects once and then converges.

Narrower than #8452, which has not moved since Oct 13 and conflicts with main. This does not change what parseSearch receives.

Tests: new issue-8777-ssr-comma-search-redirect-loop.test.ts (with and without rewrite, , and %20, redirect-then-converge) and two createStartHandler cases. 7 of 8 router-core cases fail without the fix. Also checked with curl against e2e/react-start/basic plus a comma serializer: 307 loop before, 200 after. router-core, start-server-core and react-router unit suites, eslint and tsc pass.

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Summary by CodeRabbit

• Bug Fixes
  • Fixed an infinite server-side redirect loop when custom search serializers handle commas or other normalized query characters.
  • Requests with equivalent query encodings now load without unnecessary redirects, while genuine canonical URL changes still redirect as expected.
  • Query values containing comma-separated items now work with and without identity rewrites, and non-identity rewrites retain their public path prefix.

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🦋 Changeset detected

Latest commit: 5933db7

The changes in this PR will be included in the next version bump.

This PR includes changesets to release 23 packages

Name	Type
@tanstack/router-core	Patch
@tanstack/react-router	Patch
@tanstack/react-start-client	Patch
@tanstack/react-start-rsc	Patch
@tanstack/react-start-server	Patch
@tanstack/router-generator	Patch
@tanstack/router-plugin	Patch
@tanstack/solid-router	Patch
@tanstack/solid-start-client	Patch
@tanstack/solid-start-server	Patch
@tanstack/start-client-core	Patch
@tanstack/start-plugin-core	Patch
@tanstack/start-server-core	Patch
@tanstack/start-storage-context	Patch
@tanstack/vue-router	Patch
@tanstack/vue-start-client	Patch
@tanstack/vue-start-server	Patch
@tanstack/react-start	Patch
@tanstack/router-cli	Patch
@tanstack/router-vite-plugin	Patch
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SSR URL construction and canonical href comparison now normalize search encodings. Regression tests cover comma-serialized query arrays with and without rewrite settings.

Changes: SSR query encoding normalization

Layer / File(s)	Summary
Normalize query encodings packages/router-core/src/utils.ts, packages/router-core/src/ssr/ssr-server.ts	New utilities normalize search strings and href query portions. getNormalizedURL uses the search-string utility when building a normalized URL.
Compare canonical hrefs and test redirects packages/router-core/src/load-server.ts, packages/router-core/tests/issue-8777-ssr-comma-search-redirect-loop.test.ts, packages/start-server-core/tests/createStartHandler.test.ts, .changeset/quiet-commas-agree.md	loadServerRoute compares hrefs after normalizing search encodings. Regression tests cover comma-delimited values, rewrite settings, and default search values. A patch changeset records the fix.

Estimated code review effort: 2 (Simple) | ~12 minutes

Change: Bug fix · Severity of issue fixed: Medium

Merge Risk: Minimal · up to 5933d

No merge-blocking risk was identified in the redirect normalization change.

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Check name	Status	Explanation	Resolution
Docstring Coverage		Docstring coverage is 40.00% which is insufficient. The required threshold is 80.00%. Docstring coverage is scoped to functions touched by this diff with cyclomatic complexity of at least 2. Documenta…	Write docstrings for the functions missing them to satisfy the coverage threshold.

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Check name	Status	Explanation
Description check		The description includes the required Changes, Checklist, and Release Impact sections. It explains the cause, implementation, tests, validation results, changeset, and AI authorship disclosure.
Title check		The title clearly and concisely describes the main change: comparing SSR redirect hrefs using the same search encoding.
Linked Issues check		Directly linked issue #8777 is open and active. Its coding requirements are: (1) SSR for a comma-serialized search such as /test?tags=1,2 must converge and must not redirect to the identical public …
Out of Scope Changes check		Every changed file connects to the #8777 fix. load-server.ts contains the comparison change. utils.ts adds the two helpers that the comparison and getNormalizedURL use. ssr/ssr-server.ts repla…

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Explanation

Directly linked issue #8777 is open and active. Its coding requirements are: (1) SSR for a comma-serialized search such as /test?tags=1,2 must converge and must not redirect to the identical public URL forever; (2) equivalent encodings such as , and %2C must not cause a canonicalization redirect. The whole-PR diff (merge base to head) meets both requirements. In packages/router-core/src/load-server.ts, loadServerRoute now compares normalizeHrefSearchEncoding(next.publicHref) with normalizeHrefSearchEncoding(canonical.publicHref) instead of the raw strings. In packages/router-core/src/utils.ts, the new helper normalizeSearchEncoding serializes the query through URLSearchParams, and normalizeHrefSearchEncoding applies it only to the query before #. Because both sides use the same form, ,, %2C, %20, and + no longer cause a mismatch. A real canonical difference still redirects once, using the unnormalized canonical.publicHref. The next request then matches and returns 200. The rewrite case uses the same comparison, because publicHref is produced after rewrite. Automated tests are in packages/router-core/tests/issue-8777-ssr-comma-search-redirect-loop.test.ts (with and without rewrite, comma and %20, redirect-then-converge) and two createStartHandler cases in packages/start-server-core/tests/createStartHandler.test.ts. I did not execute these tests. This verdict relies on the diff and the test descriptions in the PR summary. The issue's comma-splitting workaround is not a requirement, so it does not apply.

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Every changed file connects to the #8777 fix. load-server.ts contains the comparison change. utils.ts adds the two helpers that the comparison and getNormalizedURL use. ssr/ssr-server.ts replaces the inline URLSearchParams rebuild in getNormalizedURL with normalizeSearchEncoding. The output for the same input is unchanged: an empty query yields no ?, and a non-empty query yields ? plus the serialized parameters. The changeset .changeset/quiet-commas-agree.md declares the published @tanstack/router-core patch. The two test files cover the issue behavior. No unrelated change appears in the whole-PR diff. One behavioral note: the comparison now treats encoding-only differences as equal for all custom parsers. This is the requested behavior in #8777. It does not change what parseSearch receives.

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packages/router-core/tests/issue-8777-ssr-comma-search-redirect-loop.test.ts: 1

48-77: Trivial · Functional Correctness · Quick win

Add a non-identity rewrite case for SSR comma-search convergence.

The rewrite=true cases use identity input and output rewrites. Internal and public hrefs are therefore identical, so they cannot detect a comparison between an internal href and a public href. The issue names the rewrite option as part of the failing scope. Add one case where the public path differs from the internal route path. It covers the comma-search redirect and convergence in that configuration.

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-function createRouter({ rewrite = false, defaults = false } = {}) {
+function createRouter({
+  rewrite = false,
+  defaults = false,
+  nonIdentity = false,
+} = {}) {
...
-    rewrite: rewrite
-      ? { input: ({ url }) => url, output: ({ url }) => url }
+    rewrite: rewrite
+      ? nonIdentity
+        ? {
+            input: ({ url }) => {
+              url.pathname = url.pathname.replace('/public', '')
+              return url
+            },
+            output: ({ url }) => {
+              url.pathname = `/public${url.pathname}`
+              return url
+            },
+          }
+        : { input: ({ url }) => url, output: ({ url }) => url }
       : undefined,
...
+  test('a non-identity rewrite converges comma-search redirects', async () => {
+    const first = await loadServerResponse(
+      createRouter({ rewrite: true, defaults: true, nonIdentity: true }),
+      '/public/test?tags=1,2',
+    )
+
+    expect(first.status).toBe(307)
+    expect(first.headers.get('Location')).toBe(
+      '/public/test?tags=1,2&page=1',
+    )
+
+    const second = await loadServerResponse(
+      createRouter({ rewrite: true, defaults: true, nonIdentity: true }),
+      '/public/test?tags=1,2&page=1',
+    )
+
+    expect(second.status).toBe(200)
+    expect(second.headers.get('Location')).toBeNull()
+  })

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Add a non-identity rewrite case to the SSR comma-search convergence tests:
update createRouter to support a rewrite that maps public paths to internal
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- Around line 48-77: Add a non-identity rewrite case to the SSR comma-search
convergence tests: update createRouter to support a rewrite that maps public
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