How to return to github.com from raw.githubusercontent.com?

[pallavJha]

If there's a file in a GitHub repo, for example, this one with URL

https://github.com/istio/istio/blob/1.9.0/samples/bookinfo/platform/kube/bookinfo.yaml

Then we can get the raw content by adding the GET parameter raw = true, like,

https://github.com/istio/istio/blob/1.9.0/samples/bookinfo/platform/kube/bookinfo.yaml?raw=true

which makes the page redirect to

https://raw.githubusercontent.com/istio/istio/1.9.0/samples/bookinfo/platform/kube/bookinfo.yaml

and it presents the raw content of the file, bookinfo.yaml, stored in GitHub.

Is there a way to do the opposite, like, going back to GitHub.com from raw.githubusercontent.com by appending a GET parameter? If I change the domain from raw.githubusercontent.com to github.com then I get 404 because of the incorrect file path.

Thanks!

[krtschmr]

you can regex, replace raw.githubusercontent with github.com and after the .com seconds slash add blob/

[pallavJha]

Hi @krtschmr, Thanks for the info! I understand that we can achieve that by changing the domain/subdomain and adding the blob/ in the path. What I wanted to know was whether raw.githubusercontent.com supports any feature like ?raw=true OOTB.