Close #954 URL parsing/formatting corrections

1. Allow single-quotes in urls, but escape them. 2. Add comments about which RFCs we're following for guidance. 3. Handle any invalid character in the hostname portion. 4. lcase protocol and hostname portions, since they are case-insensitive.
14 years ago · 90802d628d
2 changed files with 171 additions and 19 deletions
--- a/lib/url.js
+++ b/lib/url.js
@ -24,25 +24,40 @@ exports.resolve = urlResolve;
 exports.resolveObject = urlResolveObject;
 exports.format = urlFormat;

+// Reference: RFC 3986, RFC 1808, RFC 2396
+
 // define these here so at least they only have to be
 // compiled once on the first module load.
-var protocolPattern = /^([a-z0-9]+:)/,
+var protocolPattern = /^([a-z0-9]+:)/i,
    portPattern = /:[0-9]+$/,
-    delims = ['<', '>', '"', '\'', '`', /\s/],
+    // RFC 2396: characters reserved for delimiting URLs.
+    delims = ['<', '>', '"', '`', ' ', '\r', '\n', '\t'],
+    // RFC 2396: characters not allowed for various reasons.
    unwise = ['{', '}', '|', '\\', '^', '~', '[', ']', '`'].concat(delims),
-    nonHostChars = ['/', '?', ';', '#'].concat(unwise),
+    // Allowed by RFCs, but cause of XSS attacks.  Always escape these.
+    autoEscape = ['\''],
+    // Characters that are never ever allowed in a hostname.
+    // Note that any invalid chars are also handled, but these
+    // are the ones that are *expected* to be seen, so we fast-path
+    // them.
+    nonHostChars = ['%', '/', '?', ';', '#']
+      .concat(unwise).concat(autoEscape),
    hostnameMaxLen = 255,
-    hostnamePartPattern = /^[a-z0-9][a-z0-9A-Z-]{0,62}$/,
+    hostnamePartPattern = /^[a-zA-Z0-9][a-z0-9A-Z-]{0,62}$/,
+    hostnamePartStart = /^([a-zA-Z0-9][a-z0-9A-Z-]{0,62})(.*)$/,
+    // protocols that can allow "unsafe" and "unwise" chars.
    unsafeProtocol = {
      'javascript': true,
      'javascript:': true
    },
+    // protocols that never have a hostname.
    hostlessProtocol = {
      'javascript': true,
      'javascript:': true,
      'file': true,
      'file:': true
    },
+    // protocols that always have a path component.
    pathedProtocol = {
      'http': true,
      'https': true,
@ -54,6 +69,7 @@ var protocolPattern = /^([a-z0-9]+:)/,
      'gopher:': true,
      'file:': true
    },
+    // protocols that always contain a // bit.
    slashedProtocol = {
      'http': true,
      'https': true,
@ -74,10 +90,19 @@ function urlParse(url, parseQueryString, slashesDenoteHost) {
  var out = {},
      rest = url;

+  // cut off any delimiters.
+  // This is to support parse stuff like "<http://foo.com>"
+  for (var i = 0, l = rest.length; i < l; i++) {
+    if (delims.indexOf(rest.charAt(i)) === -1) break;
+  }
+  if (i !== 0) rest = rest.substr(i);
+
+
  var proto = protocolPattern.exec(rest);
  if (proto) {
    proto = proto[0];
-    out.protocol = proto;
+    var lowerProto = proto.toLowerCase();
+    out.protocol = lowerProto;
    rest = rest.substr(proto.length);
  }

@ -119,6 +144,7 @@ function urlParse(url, parseQueryString, slashesDenoteHost) {
      var key = keys[i];
      out[key] = p[key];
    }
+
    // we've indicated that there is a hostname,
    // so even if it's empty, it has to be present.
    out.hostname = out.hostname || '';
@ -130,17 +156,49 @@ function urlParse(url, parseQueryString, slashesDenoteHost) {
      var hostparts = out.hostname.split(/\./);
      for (var i = 0, l = hostparts.length; i < l; i++) {
        var part = hostparts[i];
+        if (!part) continue;
        if (!part.match(hostnamePartPattern)) {
-          out.hostname = '';
+          var validParts = hostparts.slice(0, i);
+          var notHost = hostparts.slice(i + 1);
+          var bit = part.match(hostnamePartStart);
+          if (bit) {
+            validParts.push(bit[1]);
+            notHost.unshift(bit[2]);
+          }
+          if (notHost.length) {
+            rest = '/' + notHost.join('.') + rest
+          }
+          out.hostname = validParts.join('.');
          break;
        }
      }
    }
+    // hostnames are always lower case.
+    out.hostname = out.hostname.toLowerCase();
+
+    out.host = ((out.auth) ? out.auth + '@' : '') +
+        (out.hostname || '') +
+        ((out.port) ? ':' + out.port : '');
+    out.href += out.host;
  }

  // now rest is set to the post-host stuff.
  // chop off any delim chars.
-  if (!unsafeProtocol[proto]) {
+  if (!unsafeProtocol[lowerProto]) {
+
+    // First, make 100% sure that any "autoEscape" chars get
+    // escaped, even if encodeURIComponent doesn't think they
+    // need to be.
+    for (var i = 0, l = autoEscape.length; i < l; i++) {
+      var ae = autoEscape[i];
+      var esc = encodeURIComponent(ae);
+      if (esc === ae) {
+        esc = escape(ae);
+      }
+      rest = rest.split(ae).join(esc);
+    }
+
+    // Now make sure that delims never appear in a url.
    var chop = rest.length;
    for (var i = 0, l = delims.length; i < l; i++) {
      var c = rest.indexOf(delims[i]);
--- a/test/simple/test-url.js
+++ b/test/simple/test-url.js
@ -32,6 +32,99 @@ var parseTests = {
    'href': '//some_path',
    'pathname': '//some_path'
  },
+  'HTTP://www.example.com/' : {
+    'href': 'http://www.example.com/',
+    'protocol': 'http:',
+    'host': 'www.example.com',
+    'hostname': 'www.example.com',
+    'pathname': '/'
+  },
+  'http://www.ExAmPlE.com/' : {
+    'href': 'http://www.example.com/',
+    'protocol': 'http:',
+    'host': 'www.example.com',
+    'hostname': 'www.example.com',
+    'pathname': '/'
+
+  },
+  'http://user:pw@www.ExAmPlE.com/' : {
+    'href': 'http://user:pw@www.example.com/',
+    'protocol': 'http:',
+    'auth': 'user:pw',
+    'host': 'user:pw@www.example.com',
+    'hostname': 'www.example.com',
+    'pathname': '/'
+
+  },
+  'http://USER:PW@www.ExAmPlE.com/' : {
+    'href': 'http://USER:PW@www.example.com/',
+    'protocol': 'http:',
+    'auth': 'USER:PW',
+    'host': 'USER:PW@www.example.com',
+    'hostname': 'www.example.com',
+    'pathname': '/'
+  },
+  'http://x.com/path?that\'s#all, folks' : {
+    'href': 'http://x.com/path?that%27s#all,',
+    'protocol': 'http:',
+    'host': 'x.com',
+    'hostname': 'x.com',
+    'search': '?that%27s',
+    'query': 'that%27s',
+    'pathname': '/path',
+    'hash': '#all,'
+  },
+  'HTTP://X.COM/Y' : {
+    'href': 'http://x.com/Y',
+    'protocol': 'http:',
+    'host': 'x.com',
+    'hostname': 'x.com',
+    'pathname': '/Y',
+  },
+  // an unexpected invalid char in the hostname.
+  'HtTp://x.y.cOm*a/b/c?d=e#f g<h>i' : {
+    'href': 'http://x.y.com/*a/b/c?d=e#f',
+    'protocol': 'http:',
+    'host': 'x.y.com',
+    'hostname': 'x.y.com',
+    'pathname': '/*a/b/c',
+    'search': '?d=e',
+    'query': 'd=e',
+    'hash': '#f'
+  },
+  // make sure that we don't accidentally lcast the path parts.
+  'HtTp://x.y.cOm*A/b/c?d=e#f g<h>i' : {
+    'href': 'http://x.y.com/*A/b/c?d=e#f',
+    'protocol': 'http:',
+    'host': 'x.y.com',
+    'hostname': 'x.y.com',
+    'pathname': '/*A/b/c',
+    'search': '?d=e',
+    'query': 'd=e',
+    'hash': '#f'
+  },
+  'http://x...y...#p': {
+    'href': 'http://x...y.../#p',
+    'protocol': 'http:',
+    'host': 'x...y...',
+    'hostname': 'x...y...',
+    'hash': '#p',
+    'pathname': '/'
+  },
+  'http://x/p/"quoted"': {
+    'href': 'http://x/p/',
+    'protocol':'http:',
+    'host': 'x',
+    'hostname': 'x',
+    'pathname': '/p/'
+  },
+  '<http://goo.corn/bread> Is a URL!': {
+    'href': 'http://goo.corn/bread',
+    'protocol': 'http:',
+    'host': 'goo.corn',
+    'hostname': 'goo.corn',
+    'pathname': '/bread'
+  },
  'http://www.narwhaljs.org/blog/categories?id=news' : {
    'href': 'http://www.narwhaljs.org/blog/categories?id=news',
    'protocol': 'http:',
@ -58,7 +151,8 @@ var parseTests = {
    'query': '??&hl=en&src=api&x=2&y=2&z=3&s=',
    'pathname': '/vt/lyrs=m@114'
  },
-  'http://user:pass@mt0.google.com/vt/lyrs=m@114???&hl=en&src=api&x=2&y=2&z=3&s=' : {
+  'http://user:pass@mt0.google.com/vt/lyrs=m@114???&hl=en&src=api&x=2&y=2&z=3&s=':
+      {
        'href': 'http://user:pass@mt0.google.com/vt/lyrs=m@114???' +
            '&hl=en&src=api&x=2&y=2&z=3&s=',
        'protocol': 'http:',
@ -154,7 +248,7 @@ for (var u in parseTests) {
                 'parse(' + u + ').' + i + ' == ' + e + '\nactual: ' + a);
  }

-  var expected = u,
+  var expected = parseTests[u].href,
      actual = url.format(parseTests[u]);

  assert.equal(expected, actual,