Fix URLs in search results #14058
Fix URLs in search results #14058
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| } | ||
| let linkEl = listItem.appendChild(document.createElement("a")); | ||
| linkEl.href = linkUrl + anchor; | ||
| const encodedLinkUrl = linkUrl.split("/").map(encodeURIComponent).join("/"); |
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Is it possible for linkUrl to contain other components that we would not want to URL-encode? (for example, protocol scheme - http://, or similar?)
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Thanks for the comment.
If linkUrl contains something like http://, the colon would be encoded to %3A, so it would become http%3A//.
At least in the examples shown in the related issue, it doesn’t seem to contain any protocol scheme.
I’m checking the behavior of linkUrl, but if you know of any cases where it may contain a protocol scheme, please let me know.
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Thanks @hntk03 - I think in particular it is the behaviour and values of the content_root setting that we should inspect for this.
Currently I don't think that it could contain a URL scheme -- however perhaps we should write this part of the code defensively even so (because this JavaScript code may exist and run for a long duration of time in various documentation contexts).
cc @AA-Turner (in case you can add any more thoughts about the content_root, re: 8e730ae)
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Purpose
This PR ensures that URLs in search results are properly encoded.
Previously, search result URLs containing characters such as
#or?were not encoded correctly.This change adds URL encoding in the
_displayItemof search results to fix this issue.References