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Error 302 redirection with headers location starts with 3 slash #4032

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sicklife opened this issue Sep 23, 2019 · 8 comments · Fixed by #4042
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Error 302 redirection with headers location starts with 3 slash #4032

sicklife opened this issue Sep 23, 2019 · 8 comments · Fixed by #4042
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Description

when the 302 response return a headers's location startswith 3 slash, the scrapy redirect to a url different from what the browser do.

Steps to Reproduce

  1. scrapy shell https://www.hjenglish.com/new/p1285798/

Expected behavior:
redirect to https://fr.hujiang.com/new/p1285798/ as browser Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/76.0.3809.132 Safari/537.36 do.

Actual behavior:
redirct to https://www.hjenglish.com/fr.hujiang.com/new/p1285798

Reproduces how often:

everytime

Versions

Scrapy : 1.7.3
lxml : 4.3.2.0
libxml2 : 2.9.9
cssselect : 1.1.0
parsel : 1.5.2
w3lib : 1.20.0
Twisted : 19.7.0
Python : 3.7.3 (default, Mar 27 2019, 17:13:21) [MSC v.1915 64 bit (AMD64)]
pyOpenSSL : 19.0.0 (OpenSSL 1.1.1c 28 May 2019)
cryptography : 2.6.1
Platform : Windows-10-10.0.17134-SP0

Additional context

I check the defination of Location in rfc and end with reference resolution. But I fail to findout how to resolve the Location startswith ///. So I don't know why Chrome did so.

The behavior of scrapy is determined by redirect.py#L73, which will truncate /// to /

I'm wandering the differents betweent scarpy and browser...

@Gallaecio Gallaecio added the bug label Sep 24, 2019
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We aim to behave as close to browsers as possible, so let’s have a look at it.

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I was able to replicate this issue, @Gallaecio may I work on this?

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@amardeep24 Please, go ahead! 🙂

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amardeep24 commented Sep 27, 2019

@Gallaecio The difference between Scrapy and a browser is that, when the location header in the response is having a relative URL like ///fr.hujiang.com/new/p1285798/ (which is permitted as per the RFC 7213) the browser is making a request to the absolute URL https://fr.hujiang.com/new/p1285798/ where as Scrapy is considering it as a relative URL w.r.t to the base URL: https://www.hjenglish.com/fr.hujiang.com/new/p1285798.

This is happening because we have urljoin(request.url, location) in redirect.py, which resolves to https://www.hjenglish.com/fr.hujiang.com/new/p1285798 from the location sanitized URL /fr.hujiang.com/new/p1285798/.

How can we know whether the URL should be relative w.r.t base URL or a completely new URL? should we make two calls one for the https://www.hjenglish.com/fr.hujiang.com/new/p1285798 and one for the https://fr.hujiang.com/new/p1285798/ by adding https:// before the relative URL and scrape the one which succeed ?

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First we should find out if the URL sanitizer should be updated to handle this case differently. Otherwise, maybe we need to replace /// at the start by <protocol>:// before passing the value to the sanitizer.

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amardeep24 commented Sep 27, 2019

@Gallaecio This fixes the issue:

import logging
+import re
from six.moves.urllib.parse import urljoin
+from six.moves.urllib.parse import urlparse

from w3lib.url import safe_url_string

@@ -71,6 +73,9 @@ class RedirectMiddleware(BaseRedirectMiddleware):
            return response

        location = safe_url_string(response.headers['location'])
+        if response.headers['location'].decode().startswith('/', 1):
+            request_scheme = urlparse(request.url).scheme
+            location = request_scheme + '://' + re.sub('^/*', '', location)

        redirected_url = urljoin(request.url, location)

Here I checked whether the location header contains a URL starting with multiple /// if it does then append <scheme>:// before it and make it an absolute URL else use the old logic. Should I raise a PR?

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Please, open a pull request.

amardeep24 added a commit to amardeep24/scrapy that referenced this issue Sep 27, 2019
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Raised PR#4042 @Gallaecio please review :)

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