Add Nofollow for uppercased scheme in external url

CHANGELOG.md

@@ -111,6 +111,7 @@ Please view this file on the master branch, on stable branches it's out of date.
   - Retouch environments list and deployments list
   - Add multiple command support for all label related slash commands !6780 (barthc)
   - Add Container Registry on/off status to Admin Area !6638 (the-undefined)
+  - Add Nofollow for uppercased scheme in external urls !6820 (the-undefined)
   - Allow empty merge requests !6384 (Artem Sidorenko)
   - Grouped pipeline dropdown is a scrollable container
   - Cleanup Ci::ApplicationController. !6757 (Takuya Noguchi)

lib/banzai/filter/external_link_filter.rb

@@ -3,17 +3,43 @@ module Banzai
     # HTML Filter to modify the attributes of external links
     class ExternalLinkFilter < HTML::Pipeline::Filter
       def call
-        # Skip non-HTTP(S) links and internal links
-        doc.xpath("descendant-or-self::a[starts-with(@href, 'http') and not(starts-with(@href, '#{internal_url}'))]").each do |node|
+        links.each do |node|
+          href = href_to_lowercase_scheme(node["href"].to_s)
+
+          unless node["href"].to_s == href
+            node.set_attribute('href', href)
+          end
+
+          if href =~ /\Ahttp(s)?:\/\// && external_url?(href)
             node.set_attribute('rel', 'nofollow noreferrer')
             node.set_attribute('target', '_blank')
           end
+        end
 
         doc
       end
 
       private
 
+      def links
+        query = 'descendant-or-self::a[@href and not(@href = "")]'
+        doc.xpath(query)
+      end
+
+      def href_to_lowercase_scheme(href)
+        scheme_match = href.match(/\A(\w+):\/\//)
+
+        if scheme_match
+          scheme_match.to_s.downcase + scheme_match.post_match
+        else
+          href
+        end
+      end
+
+      def external_url?(url)
+        !url.start_with?(internal_url)
+      end
+
       def internal_url
         @internal_url ||= Gitlab.config.gitlab.url
       end

spec/lib/banzai/filter/external_link_filter_spec.rb

@@ -46,4 +46,38 @@ describe Banzai::Filter::ExternalLinkFilter, lib: true do
       expect(doc.at_css('a')['rel']).to include 'noreferrer'
     end
   end
+
+  context 'for non-lowercase scheme links' do
+    let(:doc_with_http) { filter %q(<p><a href="httP://google.com/">Google</a></p>) }
+    let(:doc_with_https) { filter %q(<p><a href="hTTpS://google.com/">Google</a></p>) }
+
+    it 'adds rel="nofollow" to external links' do
+      expect(doc_with_http.at_css('a')).to have_attribute('rel')
+      expect(doc_with_https.at_css('a')).to have_attribute('rel')
+
+      expect(doc_with_http.at_css('a')['rel']).to include 'nofollow'
+      expect(doc_with_https.at_css('a')['rel']).to include 'nofollow'
+    end
+
+    it 'adds rel="noreferrer" to external links' do
+      expect(doc_with_http.at_css('a')).to have_attribute('rel')
+      expect(doc_with_https.at_css('a')).to have_attribute('rel')
+
+      expect(doc_with_http.at_css('a')['rel']).to include 'noreferrer'
+      expect(doc_with_https.at_css('a')['rel']).to include 'noreferrer'
+    end
+
+    it 'skips internal links' do
+      internal_link = Gitlab.config.gitlab.url + "/sign_in"
+      url = internal_link.gsub(/\Ahttp/, 'HtTp')
+      act = %Q(<a href="#{url}">Login</a>)
+      exp = %Q(<a href="#{internal_link}">Login</a>)
+      expect(filter(act).to_html).to eq(exp)
+    end
+
+    it 'skips relative links' do
+      exp = act = %q(<a href="http_spec/foo.rb">Relative URL</a>)
+      expect(filter(act).to_html).to eq(exp)
+    end
+  end
 end